Enthusiastic Traveler and Travel Planner

Pai Canyon, Pai, Thailand

I grew up living between two countries. With most of my time spent in the United States, I spent weeks to a month of every year in the Netherlands visiting the second half of my family. These trips abroad were the breadcrumbs that fueled my future love of seeing and learning about different cultures. By the time I graduated high school I had committed to university in the Netherlands to further immerse myself in my mothers home country.

While trying to find work while studying, I became a tour guide in Amsterdam focusing on bike and food tours that I had to self curate (with some help from the company I worked for). This work experience opened me up to how much I enjoy working with people, I love seeing people have a good time, I wanted them to enjoy the city as much as they imagined they would. I loved working with people and making them happy. On top of this love for sharing my second culture, moving abroad gave me more benefits to being able to see the more of the world than I could ever have imagined at 18 years old.

Wanting to experience more of the world, I studied abroad in South Korea for 4 months when I was 20 and this trip further defined my love for new cultural experiences. This study abroad experience was the catalyst for the trip I embarked on in September 2024, leading me to backpack and visit 9 countries over a few months and fall in love with other cultures. 

Whenever I travel I love to look for novel experiences, I love antique's and markets, and I'm a big foodie who enjoys trying new and different foods.