If there's one piece of advice Regan Schoultz would give a would-be young traveller, it's "just go".
The intrepid 24-year-old has been travelling the world by herself since May last year and has no plans to return anytime soon.
"Honestly you just have to go and get out there and not worry about it," she says. "As long as you don't do anything drastically stupid, it will be absolutely fine."
Starting her journey in Singapore, Schoultz travelled to India, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam — where she stayed for three and a half months teaching English.
Currently living and working as an au pair in Italy, she's taken on a variety of odd jobs and freelance work along the way — including writing descriptions of food for a Sri Lankan website — while writing about her travels on her blog Bird of Passage.