An Intro to the Adventures

Welcome and hello!

A little about me and my travels: I am U.S.-based, love a good road trip, excel at planning multi-week overseas adventures, and absolutely get lost with (sometimes well-planned) detours.

As of March 2026, most of my traveling has happened in the past five years (outside of working full-time, I’m no influencer). I have been to Panama, Mexico, Peru, Norway, Canada, and Japan (not in that order). I’ve visited 30+ states and something like 20 National Parks across the U.S.

For a brief time, I lived and travelled in my car around the U.S.: rock climbing, kayaking, and general hippie-ing in a nomadic, slightly unhinged lifestyle around the country.

Overseas, I’ve found that my favorite places to be are what many call “off the beaten path”. I’ve climbed via ferratas in Norway, paraglided in Peru, leaned off of the CN Tower in Canada, and tend to include heart-racing similar feats at each destination.

What I love the most about traveling? The people!

Strangely enough, I was not a social butterfly growing up. In fact, I’d almost say I had a fear of social interaction up until 18 years old. In my “old” age, though, I have found that it is my favorite thing to stay at hostels, meet other travelers, and pick their brains about where they’re from and where they’ve been.

I speak English. I have a Latina mother and know some getting-around Spanish thanks to her, but I’m mostly a “No Hablo”. In college, I randomly decided I wanted to learn Japanese, took some classes that gave me a foundation, and I have been trying (and struggling) to strengthen my conversational Japanese ever since.

Polygot or not (definitely not), languages are fun. If I have any suggestion to you, darling reader, it is this: try, during your travels or your day-to-day, asking someone to teach you a phrase in their native tongue. You get the most beautiful moment of learning something new, giving another person space to love and appreciate their native language, and a shared silliness in you butchering the pronunciation.

When I have some time, I will start to write some catch-up posts: where I’ve been, what I’ve done, and (if I can possibly organize these thoughts) how I planned my past trips.

Enjoy these stories, they’re filled with equal balance of “I can’t believe I survived that” and “Oops”. Without a doubt, I’ve had a great time everywhere I’ve been - especially when things didn’t end up according to plan.