Destinations
Learn from my near-death experiences so they weren’t in vain.
Definitely beautiful. Definitely not the most backpacker-friendly city.
A budget and activity breakdown of my month-long, poutine-themed backpacking trip complete with innumerable French-language failures.
One of the surprisingly few English guides to embarking on the breathtaking and challenging La Dorsale de Triangolo Lariano hike.
Read me if you want to feel like trash about the travel industry and yourself as a human.
Real, tangible evidence to encourage you to take that first step.
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I’m a vagabond actress from California who fell in love with backpacking a few years ago. My experience with travel has been messy and at times disastrous, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
My goal is to demystify backpacking for other travel-hopefuls surviving on a shoestring budget, and to use this space as a platform for all the travel writing I’ve kept hidden in the dark corners of my Google Drive while grappling with the intersections of privilege, identity, and travel ethics.
“Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.”