I’m Amy, an explorer of real and fictional worlds. A word huntress. An escape artist. A page traveller.
I started this blog in 2015 when I was living as an expat in Hong Kong, as a way to keep in touch with friends and family back home.
Later, I wrote about my backpacking adventures in Southeast Asia and Mexico, as well as my other experiences living overseas in Italy and Thailand.
Two years ago, I started my next chapter as a digital nomad and travelling cat mom.
And of course, I’ve been journeying through books all that time, too…
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Diversify your reading list and understand places at a deeper level through books.
15+ Years experience as a serial expat, sometime backpacker, and now, digital nomad.
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