I booked this trip at 11pm on a Tuesday after a meeting where someone used the phrase “synergize our deliverables” for the third time in an hour — my corporate brain needed an escape hatch, fast. Within twenty minutes I had a one-way search pulled up for Bora Bora, French Polynesia, and within twenty more … Read more
I quit my career in finance to become a landscape photographer — and before I started the new chapter, I gave myself one month: no meetings, no performance reviews, no deliverables, just go somewhere that would remind me why I made the switch. Bora Bora kept rising to the top of the list, with those … Read more
When I left my job without another one lined up, everyone thought I was having a breakdown. I was. But I was also buying a one-way ticket to Bora Bora, and it turned out those two things were deeply connected — because sometimes the only way back to yourself is through somewhere impossibly beautiful. What … Read more
By February, the grey had settled in so deep I could feel it behind my eyes — I needed sun, warmth, and a place where winter was someone else’s problem for a few weeks. That’s how I ended up standing on a private deck above a lagoon so impossibly turquoise it looked filtered, watching the … Read more
The week my company went fully remote, I opened a map and asked a question I’d never seriously asked before: if I can work from anywhere, why am I still sitting in this apartment? My eyes landed on a tiny speck in the South Pacific — Bora Bora — and something clicked. What started as … Read more
