Allow me to re-introduce myself

Hi, hello and welcome. This page has been dormant since the start of COVID. Life has been weird and exhilarating since my last post in March 2020.

I moved out of the Bay Area and now split my time between two cities I love. I’ve experienced loss in various forms. I’ve gained memories and experiences across the world with strangers who I now call friends.

And more recently, I’ve started a brand new journey. The title of it is still to come, but what I’m about to do over the next 90 days is something I’ve dreamed about for years.

Since getting laid off this past August, I’ve re-established my ideas on success, what it looks like, and how I intend to spend my newly found free time.

I’ve been given this amazing gift of freedom, a supporting and loving base of humans in my life, and the ability to continuously remain in the present.

Over the last two months of unemployment I’ve spent time lounging around with my dogs, I’ve caught up with old friends, I’ve organized my living spaces, and I’ve spent time volunteering. These are the things I missed the most when I was so caught up in weekly deadlines, quarterly performance reports, and back-to-back meetings.

Over the last 19 years, I’ve found so much success in my career and professional life that I lost touch with what actually makes me happy vs. what I’m good at doing.

At this moment, it’s 5:45am and I’m sitting in my room in Hyderabad, India. I’m surrounded by my favorite travel things, about to spend some time traveling Asia with family, and I get to start each morning asking myself what I want to do and how I want to spend my time.

That is a gift that 10 years in the corporate world would never permit.

My intention is to get back to travel writing again. Nadia Wanders is such a beautiful outlet for me, and it’s time to start reinvesting in it.

So, follow me along as I travel this wonderful, chaotic world.