This started as a blog to keep my friends and family updated as I embarked on my first ever solo trip in 2015. I would chronicle my travels through South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe and people would be able to follow along.

I learned that I would rather be immersed in the moments and was/am not great about writing whilst traveling. Also sadly, due to security concerns (especially while traveling solo), it would be better to write after I was back home.

And then the focus evolved as I combined sharing about my journeys along with another passion: making your money work for you AKA the “how I was able to travel so much and for so long”.

That part of the story began over two decades ago…I was fortunate in having an uncle that not only traveled for work but was also very into the points and miles world. He was generous not only in gifting me free flights but also in imparting his knowledge and wisdom.

And so began my love affair with travel hacking.

I learned about credit cards and sign up bonuses and then about loyalty programs and started to redeem my own points and miles for free flights and hotel stays. I developed financial discipline so that I could do what I loved which included traveling as much as possible. I would save as much as I could and if I had to spend, I would make every penny count.

As more people would ask me about my travels, I realized that most didn’t really know anything about this other obsession of mine. To them it was the dark arts, black magic – if it was so easy, why wasn’t everyone doing it..or worse was there something amiss about what I was doing?

And so that has become part of my mission: to introduce and teach people about travel hacking (which is simply strategies and/or techniques adopted to allow one to travel for cheaper, better and/or more often)

But always with my original intent front and center: to showcase this beautiful world and to empower and inspire you to travel and create your version of a beautiful life.