I’m a multidisciplinary writer, photographer, artist. A Filipina-American immigrant born and raised in Manila, Philippines and grown in Southern California. I came up as a travel writer in the early 2010s, back in the travel blogging era when nomadic women were rendered unorthodox. I was a starry-eyed, stubborn, twentysomething dirtbag backpacker with an insatiable thirst to travel and reconnect with her roots. I left everything behind, sold whatever things I had left, packed my life in a big blue backpack, detached from an old, jaded self and pursued three things: writing, photography, travel. I traveled solo everywhere in Asia, Latin & South America, Australia, Europe, 22 countries and counting. I documented my journey in a travel blog, which garnered tens of thousands of readers worldwide and inspired people to seek the road less traveled.

I worked freelance for several years as a writer, copywriter, and photographer and partnered with various international brands and publications such as The Huffington Post, Vikasa Yoga, KEEN Footwear, Hydroflask, True & Co, Penguin Random House, etc. My work was featured in SELF, The Venue Report, Men’s Journal, Yahoo!, WordPress, Instagram, Cosmopolitan Philippines, airline magazines, travel blogs, and other publications. As another passion, I taught mindfulness meditation at Satori Studio in San Francisco and wellness retreats in Asia.

I’m currently a full-time copywriter for GUESS, freelancing for various publications, writing my first screenplay, and finishing an autofiction novel called The Sun Follows You Everywhere. Nowadays my life is a little slower, a little less nomadic as I look for beauty in the everyday mundane. But the hunger for living in-between is incessant, I still yearn to be 33,000 feet up in the sky, 500 knots in the air on the way to the unknown.

When I’m not writing I’m either surfing, in the ocean, by the ocean, meditating or delving into the otherworldly, gallivanting outdoors or reveling in music and the arts. Currently, I split my life between Los Angeles, the Philippine islands, and the road I call home.