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Learning to Walk Away.

By the time you’re reading this, I’ll be flying over the Indian Ocean to the exotic Seychelles islands. I haven’t stopped dreaming about the pristine beaches and turquoise waters since my trip to...

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Me.

I often look back upon my life, wondering at what point I went from being a regular, 20-something Indian girl trying to figure life out, to someone who (sometimes) gets paid to travel the world! Well,...

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21 Months on, My Nomadic Life Feels Normal.

21 months ago, when I packed up my home into a backpack and decided to hit the road indefinitely, I wondered how long it would take me to crave a "normal" life again.

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Fear of Missing Out.

What if I told you that the Eiffel Tower ruined Paris for me? That I spent 2 weeks in Ladakh but didn’t venture out to Pangong Lake? That I went against my gut to Petra and it was Jordan’s lowlight for...

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Why Long Term Travel is More Like Real Life and Less Like Instagram.

In 2013, when I went location independent and started travelling indefinitely without a home, Instagram was still in its infancy. Thank heavens. Although I had dreamy notions of what my life of long...

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17 Incredible Travel (and Life) Moments of 2017.

I’m not really in the mood to pen this post. One moment, I’m in the Slovenian Alps, cycling and hiking amid pristine alpine meadows, it’s the middle of the year, there’s so much I want to experience,...

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Why You Shouldn’t Put Off Your Travel Dreams in 2018.

A few days ago, I got chatting with a friend who’s getting married soon. She seemed excited and nervous about the approaching wedding day, but lamented that her family and spouse were about to spend...

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How I Managed to Pay Off 26000$ of Student Loan: Candid Tips for Freelancers...

Over six years ago, when I quit my 9-to-5 corporate job in Singapore, I tried not to dwell upon the 26,000$ student debt hanging above my head. In order to finance my college education in Singapore, I...

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Meet the Indian Software Engineer Who Quit His Job to Climb Mount Everest –...

“If a 110 kg Gujarati guy, living a sedentary life, with no background in endurance training or mountain climbing, can transform his life and climb to the top of Mount Everest, nothing is impossible.”...

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Highs and Lows of 2019 – and What I’m Looking Forward to in 2020.

After spending large chunks of 2017 and 2018 writing and publishing my first book, 2019 was all about rediscovering my travel mojo. And luckily for me, this year gave me many chances to push my...

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