trips

One month with no meetings, no performance reviews, and nothing due to anyone — that was the deal I made with myself after leaving a finance career behind to chase landscape photography full-time, and Bora Bora is where that month ended up going. The island had been sitting at the top of my list for … Read more

A friend once told me, with total confidence, that Bora Bora is one of those places you can decide on impulse and sort out later — “the good bungalows are never actually full, that’s just marketing.” That piece of advice fell apart the exact night I tested it. I’d just sat through a meeting where … Read more

I once had a client named Phillip — retired banker, spreadsheet enthusiast, convinced he’d cracked Bora Bora before he’d even landed in French Polynesia — who booked his own connecting flight instead of trusting our group’s transfer schedule, and missed it by forty minutes, stranding himself in Tahiti while our boat pulled away from the … Read more

Late February in most years, nightly rates on Bora Bora’s overwater bungalows quietly drop by nearly a third compared to the July-through-September peak — a detail that changed everything about how and when I finally made this trip happen. I’d hit the point where the gray sky felt permanent, lodged somewhere behind my eyes, and … 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