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Travel

Chasing the dream,
one departure at a time.

Honest notes from the road — the decision, the nerves, and the first morning somewhere new.

A note when there's a new entry from the road. Nothing else.

An open handwritten travel journal on cream linen beside a stamped passport, a folded paper map, round sunglasses and a woven straw bag in soft daylight
Go before you feel ready. You never quite do. — Leslieann

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.

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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…

Travel·3 min read

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.

  • Home

    Trinidad & Tobago

    Born and raised there. Still the measure I hold everywhere else against.

  • September 2024

    Grenada

    My parents’ island. I spent a birthday driving through nearly every parish with my aunt.

  • Carnival

    Tobago

    Loud, joyful, and the kind of noise that puts you back together.

  • 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.
A phone on a small tripod beside a linen notebook, a coffee cup and sunglasses on a sunlit balcony table

For brands & hotels

Let's make something on the road.

I'm a travel creator and writer. I make honest, unhurried work — the kind people actually save and send to a friend — with a writer's eye for the story and a studio background that means the deliverables arrive on time and on brief.

  • Short-form video for Instagram and TikTok — hotel walkthroughs, mornings, arrivals
  • Photo sets and stills, licensed for your own channels
  • Long-form written features here on the blog
  • Solo travel, moving abroad, and the Caribbean in particular

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