Why I Keep Choosing Solo Travel
I enjoy traveling with people, but I’ve learned that I don’t always need company to have a good trip. Sometimes I just want to go, take my time, and enjoy it my way.
Travel
Chasing the dream,
one departure at a time.
Honest notes from the road: the decision, the nerves, and the first morning somewhere new.
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Notes from the road
Grenada for my birthday, a cruise through the Bahamas, Tobago Carnival, and plenty of trips that never made it onto the page. These are the ones I've written about. New entries land here as I go.
Choosing Peace: My Journey Toward a New Life Abroad
I’ve been thinking lately: what if I left the U.S. behind and returned to a life more aligned with my roots, where both the ocean and my soul feel at home? As someone born in Trinidad…
Discovering Grenada: My Birthday Adventure
This September, I decided to spend my birthday somewhere special: Grenada. It was my first time visiting, and as someone who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, I wasn’t quite sure what to…
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Stamps in the passport
Some of these have a post behind them and some of them don't yet. The list keeps growing.
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Home
Trinidad & Tobago
Born and raised there. Still the measure I hold everywhere else against.
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September 2024
Grenada
My parents’ island. I spent a birthday driving through nearly every parish with my aunt.
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Carnival
Tobago
Loud, joyful, and the kind of noise that puts you back together.
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By sea
The Bahamas
A cruise, which turned out to be a very good way to meet an island for the first time.
Why I go
Some things you can only learn a long way from home.
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I'm a travel creator and writer. I make honest, unhurried work that people want to save and send to a friend. I bring a writer's eye for the story and a studio background, so the work arrives on time and on brief.
- Short-form video for Instagram and TikTok: hotel walkthroughs, mornings, arrivals
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- Long-form written features here on the blog
- Solo travel, moving abroad, and the Caribbean in particular
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