It’s strange returning to a place that once felt so familiar.

It’s been five years since I sat down in this corner of the internet. Five years since I thought I was ready to start sharing again but little did I know it was the beginning of an incredible lived in, uprooted epic world cultural travel immersion.

I fondly think back to the time when I shared my thoughts simply because they wanted to be written. Way back in 2013 when this blog began, when I felt the call and the pull to write.

Life, however, has a way of taking us exactly where we need to go. Especially if we really lean into it.

Five Years, 45 Countries, and the Unknown

Since I last wrote here was with some updates, Leon and I packed up our lives, sold almost everything we owned, and stepped into the unknown. We’ve spent the last five years slow-travelling the world across 45 countries as digital nomads, living across countries, cultures, and continents. I also have spent time teaching ESL and tutoring/mentoring. Talking to over 2000 people across multiple countries in over 5,000 1 on 1 conversations.

I didn’t just collect passport stamps, I collected conversations, perspectives, contradictions, grief, joy, history, silence, and stories. I have had epic 5 star excursions and experiences and more fondly I have had incredibly diverse conversations and experiences that I never, ever could have imagined.

My journey crossed the lands of epic and fallen empires, culturally diverse people and ancient geography.

But above all my journey was about humanity.

The Search for What Makes Us Human

The more people I met, the more fascinated I became with what makes us who we are.

Why we believe what we believe.

Why societies evolve the way they do.

Why history repeats itself.

Why some people seem willing to surrender their thinking willingly while others spend their lives questioning everything. The further I travelled across the world, the deeper I travelled into the human mind.

Looking Back at 2013

Looking back now, I smile at the woman who started this blog in 2013. Check out my first post or my about me page to read my original intentions for this blog.

She simply wanted the courage to call herself a writer. She was hungry. She felt the faint calling.

She had no idea where those words would eventually lead. Honestly sometimes I still can’t believe it myself.

Where the Words Are Going

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