Lauren Monitz Durie is a freelance travel writer and influencer with a focus on offbeat adventures and things you didn’t even know you wanted on your bucket list. From blackwater rafting in New Zealand to horse surfing—where else but Florida—she seeks out the weirdest and wackiest attractions wherever she goes to show there’s no such thing as a flyover city or state.

Lauren Monitz Durie is a freelance travel writer and influencer with a focus on offbeat adventures and things you didn’t even know you wanted on your bucket list. From blackwater rafting in New Zealand to horse surfing—where else but Florida—she seeks out the weirdest and wackiest attractions wherever she goes to show there’s no such thing as a flyover city or state.

She has been published in Fodor’s, Trivago, AOL, MSN, The Food Network, USA Today, Eater, and HuffPost, among others. You can follow the (mis)adventures on her blog, TheDownLo.com, or on Instagram @lmonitz.
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She recently founded AnythingButChristmasAdventCalendars.com
to extend the celebration for life’s biggest milestones because those are the moments that truly matter.