When I Roam is a travel blog to keep my memories alive for myself but it also started as a way for me to get back into writing with something positive I love. Since I was a girl I have wanted to be a writer. I have journals filled with embarrassing songs of boys “I loved” when I was 8 (I apparently loved a new one each month) or another embarrassing story about Pochaco’s adventures (from Hello Kitty). I also have several short stories and poems from college I am very proud of, but they are mostly dark and talk about cartel violence in Mexico. Writing has always been my therapy.
Life got in the way of my writing and until recently I hadn’t had any motivation to write. I’ve relied on travel blogs to find ideas for my travels, restaurants, hotels, unusual activities to do, etc. I am the restaurant chooser for my family. My secret? I LOVE TO EAT! I am also a planner, and will soon write a post about my birthday mother-daughters roadtrip through New Zealand (postponed due to Covid-19).
The title also came from my recent move to Rome, Italy. When in Rome, became When I Roam. As I will use Rome as my base and travel constantly, either for work or pleasure, internationally or just around the corner.
Snippets about me
I am an entrepreneur. Setting up my company took about 3 years of constant mental and physical struggle. Entrepreneurs are always saying how they are always busy, for me there was a lot of dead time and waiting, especially in the beginning. You would hustle for a month, then have to wait.
I’ve lived in Mexico, England, USA, and Italy. I speak three languages and travel is the best investment we can give to ourselves as it opens our minds to other cultures, opinions and ways of seeing the world. I won’t leave my job or my home to travel the world any time soon. I am an entrepreneur, a wife, a citizen of the world, a dreamer, a traveller and these are my stories.
I have two dogs, two cockapoos. They are the best company and one of them, Mishka, is a service dog and travels with me.
Travels
I will talk about past travels I don’t want to forget (like my best five trips of a lifetime), both with suggestions of what to do or not to do (i.e. book a cruise around New Zealand for the wrong year) and future travels. This will also include a little bit of musings, thoughts, concerns about the places I travel or what I learn along the way.
Some of the places I have already been to:
- Antarctica
- Hawaii (not the Luau version, but the walk on lava kind and wear a jacket every day)
- Amazon Rainforest
- Jackson Hole
- Banff
- Japan
- Bhutan
- Mexico (of course my home)
- Disney
- Swimming with whale sharks
- Swimming with bull sharks
Some of the places on my list:
- Kenya
- Myanmar
- Polynesia
- Svalgard
- Thailand (I’ve been to Bangkok)
- Roadtrip (New Zealand coming soon)
How I travel
A lot of my trips have been with my family. We are a bunch that love traveling and adventure. Others have been with my husband, my sister or solo. I’ve done a lot of solo traveling for work. People say I am very lucky I get to travel for work, and I am, but it can get lonely, tiresome and sometimes it’s hard to visit a place when you are there for 48 hours and half of that is spent in a conference room. One year I traveled 98 flight segments. Which means I got on 98 flights, in one year, sometimes spending less than 24 hours in one place. So budget, family, work, solo, splurge travel. I’ve done it and I’ll write about them.
