travel Archives • The Bliss Movement

How To Stay Connected To Travel While Staying At Home

For those of us with a nomadic soul staying home can be a hard pill to swallow. If you, like me, feel deeply defined by travel then I want to support you with a few ways you can stay connected to the spirit of travel without leaving your home.First, I want you to ask yourself what you gain from traveling. What does it give you? What feelings does it evoke? While you're spending more time at home, it's important to find moments within your day that evoke those same feelings that you receive from traveling. The answers to these questions will be differ[...]

Self-Care, Tips, Planning and Packing, Travel

How To Practice Self-Care While Traveling

Maintaining a self-care practice while traveling is essential to prevent travel burnout and ensure you have the best experience abroad!

Alberta, Canada, Travel

Johnston Canyon In The Winter: Everything You Need To Know

A hike through Johnston Canyon is a popular day trip activity for anyone visiting Banff, Canmore, and even nearby Calgary. I had always visited in the summer but finally got to experience it in the winter and let me tell you, Johnston Canyon in the winter is one of the most magical things I've ever seen. And this is coming from a self-professed snow and winter hater. Even when my hair was turning white as it froze in the -30 temperatures and I couldn't feel my legs anymore, I was overjoyed. I'm not exaggerating.Banff is one of Alberta's top tourist d[...]

Alberta, Canada, Travel

6 Things To Do On A Day Trip to Drumheller, Alberta

Drumheller is a tourist destination in the heart of the Canadian badlands where the flat prairie fields transform into deep canyons that you can explore, walking in the very footsteps of the dinosaurs that used to roam here. Yep, Drumheller is home to the richest discoveries and collections of dinosaur remains in the world. Education and preservation of these extinct beings are at the forefront of what Drumheller is all about and its unique standing is embraced by the entire community.After twenty-eight years of living only three hours away from this[...]

Australia, Budget Travel, Travel

Your Quick Guide to Traveling Australia’s East Coast

The East Coast of Australia is filled with picture perfect images that entice people from all over the world to come and visit this big, beautiful country. With everything to offer from city life and sea-side villages to mountain ranges and wild rain forests, the east coast has become the most popular backpacker route within Australia. Along the way you will meet people from all walks of life, all nationalities, all ages and all abilities ticking off this bucket-list trip and they are all doing it differently. Because there are so many ways of exper[...]

Asia, Bali, Indonesia, Travel

5 Things You Have To See in Nusa Lembongan

After spending nearly a year in Australia - living, working, exploring - Bali was the final destination in what turned out to be a year and a half in four continents. I had quickly acclimatized to Australian seasons, putting a sweater on when the temperatures dropped below 24C and after having "endured" a Cairns winter (which still involved going to the beach, so can that really be called winter?), the prospect of Bali was like a vacation from my extended vacation.Most of my time in Bali was spent exploring the jungle atmosphere of Ubud, eating my wa[...]

Mindset, Mood and Mindset, Self-Care

Get Out of a Bad Mood in 3 Easy Steps

Sometimes, bad moods are inescapable. For whatever reason, you're experiencing a day, or a week, or a month, where you're just not yourself. That's okay! I try to put out good energy, be good energy, and be someone who always has a smile easily available for whoever needs it. I think we all aspire to be that kind of person but some days, some weeks, it's hard. And that's okay. While it's important to sit with all of our emotions, even the negative, there comes a point where the more we wallow in it, the worse it becomes. And we start to take our bad[...]

Asia, Bali, Guides + Itineraries, Indonesia, Travel

How To Spend One Week in Ubud, Bali

A relaxed village surrounded by the Balinese jungle - a place where time slows down and life adopts an easygoing vibe. After spending one week in Ubud, the town I had dreamed up was not quite the same as the Ubud I experienced. While you can still walk all of Ubud, it is not actually that small. While people are laid back and going with the flow, it is still chaotic. Walking anywhere during the daytime in the center of Ubud means fighting for space among other foreigners on the sidewalk. The dense traffic in and around the center of town turns a fiv[...]

Australia, Travel

Crystal Cascades and Fairy Falls, Cairns

After a fantastic day waterfall hopping through the popular waterfall circuit in the Atherton Tablelands we decided to spend our Saturday looking for more. Crystal Cascades is an extremely popular waterfall near Cairns that is visited daily by people of all ages. A long steady river with various pools to jump into, boulders to climb on, mini waterfalls and the larger waterfall at the highest point of Crystal Cascades, this waterfall makes for a great day in the sun. From the parking lot you can walk along the paved footpath for 2km one direction to the top of th[...]

Australia, Travel

6 Things To Do In Mission Beach, Australia

I have been searching for a place that connects with my soul recently.I've felt the need for some sort of retreat, a deeper connection with something or somewhere, and when I stumbled upon a little place along the tropical coast of Queensland called Mission Beach, I knew that I had found it.Mission Beach is an often overlooked bit of the typical traveler route up the east coast of Australia but it has snuck up and nestled in tightly to a little piece of my heart. I have been here only five days and most of the people that have been passing through st[...]

Australia, Travel

Sailing the Whitsundays: A 2-Day Tour

A boat trip around the Whitsunday Islands of Australia's east coast is almost a right of passage for travelers. It's probably one of the top three "must do" activities along the coast and you have your choice of a one day, two day and one night, or three day and two night tour of the Whitsundays.I opted for two days and one night and my expectations were high. It had been a while since something really blew me away. A lot of rain during the majority of my travels up Australia's east coast has put a bit of a damper on things, including excursions that[...]

Australia, Travel

Exploring the Hippie Town of Byron Bay, Australia

A beach town with a chilled out, hippie vibe right next to the sea seemed like a good place for the first stop in my trip up Australia's east coast. Deemed everything from a gypsy's paradise to a town of lost souls, Byron Bay is one of those places where you plan to stay for a couple of days and find yourself still there weeks later.With only five days to experience the town, I booked my stay as close to the beach as I could possibly get - a hostel called Backpackers Inn on the Beach - which was just a two minute stroll down a sandy trail to the beac[...]