About

Hello! And welcome to my blog!

I’m Marina, a twenty-something traveler from Seattle.

This blog has been a long time coming since I’ve kept three separate blogs during different travel periods of my life. I wanted to finally have a cumulative blogging experience and attempted to start this blog over two years ago but with the way travel blogging and social media have taken storm in the past five+ years it took me forever just to decide on a name for myself. Especially an available name. But finally, here I am!

My Story

The travel bug bit me moments after I was born while my father held me in the hospital and promised me a life of adventures. Starting from my first international trip at three months old, to spending my formative years between Seattle and Baja de California Mexico where my parents and I lived on a boat sailing around the Sea of Cortez, to an eight-month around the world trip when I was just twelve years old, to independently immersing myself into Italian culture as a foreign exchange student when I was sixteen, to all my college and post-college adventures.

It’s been hard to keep me in one place for long – my college entrance essay was all about my coming and going lifestyle and how it has shaped and prepared me for constant change and the ability to adapt easily.

In spite of my lust for wandering, I am actually quite the homebody/introvert when given the chance to nest somewhere. It was only recently pointed out to me how I might have become such an adventurous homebody while playing Two Truths and a Lie, with the options being:

I’ve lived on a boat
I can’t stand staying in one place
I’m not a homebody

By now you know I have lived on a boat and if I could stand staying in one place then we probably wouldn’t be this far down my “About Me” page. So the lie was “I’m not a homebody” (because I can homebody it up like nobody’s business)!

Someone commented on my options saying it wasn’t fair play because they were all the same, but then had the realization that living on a boat is both staying in the same place and constantly being on the move. I guess from a psychological standpoint my boating childhood explains why I feel so at home moving around a lot but also being at home.

Now I’m post-grad and looking to live to the fullest in this crazy gap-life I’m leading.

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