Growing up, I was always eccentric. I moved around growing up as a kid, and ended up living on all corners of the country – so I never had a place that I felt I could call “home”. Coming from a traditional family, everything I ended up wanting to do would go against the grain of the wishes of anyone I was surrounded by.

After I graduated from high school, I ended up taking my first semester of college off to be a part-time pre-school teacher at a summer camp I had volunteered for several summers. When I left that job to go to University, without a clue of what I wanted to study – all of the parents of the kids I left behind… were in need of a babysitter, and suddenly – I had a self-sufficient business in my own hands. My whole life, I had pushed too hard for people and things to go my way – but this one… just fell into my lap. 

I had dreamed about seeing the world ever since I was a little girl. So, when I turned 18, and found the means to make those fantasies into realities: I put a jar on top of my room at the start of 2017, and by May of that year – I took myself to Europe for the first time, and it all spiraled from there. I became dedicated to being a commuting-student-at-college-park-and-a-babysitter-travelling-the-world. In two short years, I made my way to 19 countries, 4 continents, and 40+ cities around the globe. 

It’s through travelling that I have found my home… and it’s whenever I’m not at home. They say I have a way with words, and I’ve figured out that writing, my ability to craft words and tell a story, is and will always be my greatest gift. I can be intense and rational like an eighty-four-year-old, but also ridiculous and quirky as I dance through the halls, listen music, and sing to myself like nobody’s watching like a four-year old. I’m vivacious, diligent, confident, creative, and passionate – but my impatience is my greatest enemy. Life is not about the destination, but it’s about the journey – as it’s the longest movie there is. It isn’t absurd to have hope, and it isn’t unreasonable to think big – because anything is truly possible when you decide to set your mind to it…and that, is precisely what Destination Dreamer Diaries is all about. Love, passion, and determination can give you the persistence to achieve all of the things that seem out of reach….

…because dreams do come true.