Coddiwomple

While exploring beautiful places and meeting interesting new people, we are bound to fall in love everyday when traveling. We fall in love with the place, foods, culture, weather, beaches, mountains, bars, and most importantly, with each other.

Mt. Wellington, Hobart, Tasmania

Do you ever feel that actually you go nowhere and at some point there is a tiring phase and you wanna go back home really really soon. Or you are on your way somewhere nowhere with no clue and you even don't know clearly why you go there but unexpectedly when you were there with a stranger and you feel like its a place that you can call home?

I am a solo traveler that looking for a way back home, ya my truly home that I can't live without. A place to lean on, a place where my comfort place is there, a place that I never be bored of.

I am travel to anywhere that might be doesn't makes any sense to anyone. But I am happy that I took a chance to try, to walk away from a place that I thought a comfort zone.

I went to Australia to escape, to find something new, to take a challenge leaving far from home alone (again) after 6 months can't travel because shit happen while I'm at Annapurna. I never expect that this trip will leave a deep marks on my heart. I met beautiful peoples on my trip, I've seen amazing landscape, I enjoyed delicious meal and drinks. Yes, and also I left my piece of heart and feeling somewhere there.

I had beautiful experience while I'm in Aussie, like an experience that I never had before, an experience that never be expected, and experience that change my life and way of thinking. 

Can you imagine, you left your origin place with cloud on your head, and you back home with a sunshine on your eyes and clear sky on your head. Positive vibes is in whole of your body.

Yes! That's what I feel! It is a crazy feeling like I wonder what it can be happen to myself, it is kind of magic that not explainable.

The more you travel, the more you see it isn't more things you need. Instead, you need peoples and their stories inside your stories (to be) on your long and exhausting journey. We might need an airplanes, ship, or train but we also need grace, that reminds you that you are has a freedom to exploring and you will never ever out of place.

One of the best things about traveling is the people you meet. It is always be reason why we have to go back and meet each other again. Its not only meet, the possibilities of having mood of changing your life feels so real. I met so many people while I'm travel, they made my day everyday. I am blessed to met them on my trip. So let me show you who they are;

Yuke is my high school lovely chick that out of sudden contact me directly when she knew that I'm touch down Sydney. We had nice dinner with Sydney hipster vibes. It was mixed feeling when I met her. Simply because I really have no idea what to do in Sydney and humbly she text me and ask to hang out. She always be kind of lovely girl that I knew.

I met him in the middle of confusion Sydney life, He is one of dude that telling me an Italian shitty jokes while we chillin on a park in the middle of his break working time. He cooked such  grilled salmon with nice salad which is my favorite. Daniel is a truly Italian chef that rockin my Sydney culinary trip. Another nice thing is on my last day in Sydney we went to fish market because I'm just craving for fish and chips like crazy! And he just laughing and teasing me because I amazed with BIG BIG BIG BIG anything there.

AAAHHH!! TASSIE LIFE! It is a destiny! I love my Tassie trip like crazy! I met these crazy travel mates in the middle of nowhere. Yenti is a unbelievable Indonesian woman who amazingly has a nice stories and balanced my travel crazy life, she is my navigator while doing a road trip in Tassie, I met her on a Indonesian traveler community.

 

Ron! A Hongkong dude that terror me with his text on couchsurfing because he want to join my road trip in Tassie, HAHAHAHA. Well, eventually I pick him up at Devenport and I will never regret to let him in on my road trip because he is kind of travel mate who love to read and doing research, he tell me a treasure place to visit that suprisingly amazing! Who need google when we have Ron? HAHAHAHAHAH

   

AAAAHHH!!! How I start with these dudes? A man exactly behind me! I call him monkey with a nice taste of Italian jokes and of course his pasta! (oh! God! I have lot of Italian dudes in my life! HELP!) Emanuelle is annoying guy that made my Tassie life become so much interesting, he is kind of annoying yet caring in a same time, imagine I have to washed my car in the middle of the night because I have no time and I have to leave Tassie on the next day early morning, and guess who washed it??? Yes! Italian Monkey did it for me! I will never forget a moment when I put a coins to the wash machines and scream to him "Dude! Times gonna up!!!" and he just reply me like "Put another  dollar! Hurry!!!!" LOL! Thats such a funny yet touching moment.

And the other funny Germany dude behind is Dawid A.K.A David (he enjoyed to be called as David LOL). He is kind of an innocent guy who exploring a new life and world out of nowhere. He is plain paper with a steady ear to listen. 

Well, There is a time when we hungry AF and we looking for a food and after 5 hours driving to Launceston we end up with a burgers in bloody McDonalds! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA we become zombie after they had dead animals Tasmania burger LOL! It is a funniest moment in the middle of cold Tassie.

Landed at Melbourne with a tiring body and Tassie mood. Jaime pick me up and let me rest at his apartment and guess what? I JUST KNOW THAT KENDID and TAMI (my senior while in collague) are his friend!!! DAFUQ! Such a small world! Ah ya! Jaime was studied in Indonesia for a year so that was nice feeling when someone speak Indonesian after I had to spoke with a Merino language in Tassie. Kendid is a person who never change since the first time I knew him on my first day of school 8 years ago. His manners and positive vibes always bring me joy and confidence, I still remember when I applied for scholarship abroad, he is the only senior who told me "Lysa! Its piece of cake for you! You can do it!" And when I got that scholarship he is the first one that knew I got it (instead of my parents LOL). Well, Me and Kendid has a nice time in Melb, and again he always encourage me to do a happy life, and he tried to bring me stay and working in Melbourne LOL. Tami? A cool girl that never change, like always and ever.

Last but not least, My last day in Melbourne was well spent with the most beautiful people around me. Elliott is the only American guy who bring me joy and happiness, my favorite peanut butter in my Aussie trip, a person who inspire me A LOT to do good things! I don't even believe there is a human like him exist in this cruel world, such an amazing human being, humble, talented, tender, and good listener. He always be patient to listen my tired statement, when I said "Ah... I don't know how to explain" and he always said "Thats OK....". His energy is magic! He can bring a positive vibes and change your mind and life instantly just simply shared his life experiences and be GENUINE! Anyone who met him in their life is lucky!

Mars, a lovely young chick Italian-African raised in Germany that I've met at Elliott's house. I still remember when I knocked Elliot's house to get in and she opened the door for me because Elliott just away from home for martial art. I still remember how cute she is and her nice taste of music that I can enjoy it in my whole life for sure.

I am beyond happy to met them in my life. I still can't belive that my 2 weeks trip in aussie with their stories instantly add new way of life or at least a fresh point of view.
I'm rarely post a selfie picture. But now, for the first time in forever I post this massive group selfie(s) bcos this trip is amazing and memoriable. A trip that open my heart and eyes widely that life is extremely beautiful when u dare yourself to playing outside. I'm blessed to have them in my life to painted my plain sketch book bcome so colorful.

We fall in love with each experience that we've got while traveling. We take a picture not only to show the world that we've been there, done that, or just checked a bucket list. Sometimes we take a picture to remind how blessed we are because we have those amazing experience.

I am a sucker of good and beautiful stories- and what makes a better story than falling in love in an exotic foreign place or simply enjoyed glass (or more) of wine in a comfortable and chill place to stay?