Hello and welcome to My Endless Odyssey!

Call me Kay, I’ll be the one sharing my travel experiences with you – the good, the bad, and the interesting.

To get to know me, I’ve answered a couple of basic questions below, about my travel experiences and who I am as a person.

When Did I Start Traveling?

My first international trip was in kindergarten, when my family went on a week-long trip to Berlin to meet up with some close friends. I only remember a little bit of the trip – mostly the flight and going to a waterpark – but it was the first time I had ever left the country. And it was my last time, until college.

In college, I studied abroad in Florence, Italy, something I bring up frequently. But that experience really jumpstarted my love of travel and pushed me to look into travel-oriented careers when I graduated. I got a job at a travel company after graduation and that job, and COVID, were what lead me to my life now.

I started traveling full-time 4 years ago, in late 2021. Instead of running into it full-tilt, I decided to test myself first with a 2-month long road-trip around the U.S. An easy way to test my dedication with a simple return home strategy if it didn’t work out (i.e. drive until I get to my mom’s house and pout over my failure).

It was, of course, a success, and I transitioned to step 2 – three months abroad. I spent nearly three months in Spain, starting in Madrid and circling around until I ended in Bilbao. With my two test runs complete successes – I enjoyed myself, I kept exploring, and I worked – I concluded that I COULD travel full-time (for an average of 8-9 months a year, at least), and proceeded to do it for 4 years.

At the time of writing this, I’ve been to 48 countries over the last 4 years and look forward to another 4 years of adventures!

Why Did I Start Traveling?

I love the freedom of movement and expression that traveling gives me. Being locked into a capitalistic lifestyle and conforming to the expectations of a very black-and-white society is exhausting. Traveling, and getting to know many different cultures and societal norms, allows for a level of open-mindedness that you might otherwise not experience if you never branch out of your comfort zone.

For me, travel was not my first choice of a lifestyle. I was perfectly happy creating my own little world in society, with a yearly trip abroad. But when COVID happened, I realized how tiny my world was, in a time when the impacts of globalization had shut down every country. During lockdown, I fell into the YouTube rabbit-hole of travel-blogging and promised that, once the world was open for travel again, I would see those places, experience those highs and lows of life that I would have otherwise missed out on.

How Do I Travel?

If one good thing came from COVID, it was the raise of Work From Home options. I work a solid 9-3 EST schedule while traveling. It minimizes my travel options of course (I’m not going to be working in Japan on an 11pm-5am schedule, after all), but it allows me to enjoy the morning and most of the afternoon in most European countries before logging on for work in the afternoon/evening.

What Do I Do For Fun?

Now, travel is big for me and takes up a lot of my time, but it was not what I started with for a hobby.

I went to college for a Creative Writing degree, so reading and writing are still a big part of my life. It’s actually what made me decide to set up a blog (that, and the fact that everyone and their mother said I should start one, so here I am).

I also enjoy watching anime (though I haven’t had a lot of time for that in the last couple of years) and knitting (I try to find some yarn while traveling, with Argentina being a favorite for getting good skeins).