About Me

Hey girl, Hey,
I am Amanda!

A solo female travel blogger featuring affordable luxury travel tips, packing guides, and secrets from around the world to help you have the best trip ever! And yes, affordable luxury is possible!

I was born and raised and currently reside in the beautiful and sunny City of Angels. Los Angeles is a dream destination for most and a nightmare for many. Especially if you’re on the 405 or a single girl paying rent in LA! If you know, you know!

The heart of this Blog is Travel. Since my early childhood, I have been on the move. My mom always had me somewhere, and at 10 years old, I was on my first overseas trip to Rome and Paris. This would leave me forever yearning to explore the World. Europe, especially, will forever be etched in my heart as a treasure.

I can always count on traveling to bring magic back to my life wherever I go. Being able to share my experience and expertise is beyond rewarding. It is also like a getaway because I enjoy being on the move, researching, learning, and sharing everything I know about different places and cultures.

I was 13 when I started practicing Buddhism and although I’ve never considered myself wealthy, I am beyond rich in life condition, fortune and peace. I attribute my Buddhist practice to allowing me the fortune of traveling the World and being able to experience so much. Check out my lifestyle page for more info on Buddhism and my practice.

When not traveling or living my best life, I manage a Dental Office in Los Angeles and love what I do there, too! However, I look forward to making The Wondering Lotus Lifestyle my full-time career and know it is totally attainable.

Making the impossible possible through faith and diligent efforts.

After an horrendous and toxic breakup in 2021, where traveling was our “thing.” I knew I had to keep doing what I love: traveling and smiling. At that moment, I felt a shift. All the hard work, healing and human revolution I was doing was manifesting. I got my smile back and I started to believe in myself for the first time in my life. I also have a fantastic friend who could see my potential when I couldn’t during this terrible heartbreak. Shout out to Tiff!

She was convinced I was already great at planning and writing after being blown away by a trip I had curated for us to visit Croatia and from following along all of my previous adventures.

I had just come back from Greece with one of my girl friends, at trip my ex and I had planned to go on prior to our break up and it all started flowing. The Wondering Lotus Lifestyle was born. I was born.

Why The Wondering Lotus

What To Expect

I want The Wondering Lotus Lifestyle to be an enlightening and transformative website full of content dedicated to bringing out the best you! I used to watch my Google Docs fill up with all the places I wanted to visit or things I wanted to see and do, researching for hours. Not realizing something that made me so happy in my downtime could be my full time as “The Wondering Lotus‘ and that I could help others realize their dreams, too. I also needed a creative outlet, and since journaling is cathartic for me, I found a way to let it all out and inspire like minded travelers along the way.

Hear me out though, traveling and vacationing are two totally different things! Traveling is full of history, sites to see, and culture to absorb. Vacation is unplugging from the World, relaxing at a resort with an umbrella drink and zero plans. Trips that I plan, you can get a taste of it all.

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xx Amanda