Untethered: A Beginner's Guide To Solo Travel

What if getting lost was the most honest way to come home to yourself?

Untethered is not just a guidebook. It’s part handbook, part workbook, part travel memoir, written for anyone who’s ever wondered if they could take the leap and do the thing alone.

Written by full-time traveller, writer, and host of the Lost & Found podcast, Karmen Wiid, this book will have you crying with laughter one moment and dropping it in awe the next, gut-punched by life truths you didn’t know you needed.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Step-by-step guidance on how to plan your first solo trip
• Packing lists, safety tips, money breakdowns & mindset shifts
• Journal prompts and reflective questions to anchor your journey
• Honest and hilarious stories about friendship, freedom, travel mishaps, heartbreak and finding yourself on the road in your twenties
• A deeper invitation: to travel not just through the world, but through yourself

Whether you’re navigating a breakup, a quarter-life crisis, or simply craving more, Untethered offers both the roadmap and the permission slip.

This is not a book about how to escape your life. It’s a book about how to expand it. And how to remember the kind of person you’ve always wanted to be.

“The Perfect mix of The Artist’s Way and Travelling 101. So inspirational and freeing and fun! I read it in one sitting!” – Ashley Allard, Editor & Co-Founder of Low Altitude Magazine