My name is Naomi, and I stand behind a camera and go ‘click, click, click.’
Travel has always been a major part of my life, most importantly because people fascinate me.
The things we do, the way we think, and the desires which manifest themselves around us mesmerize me.
Being in a completely new place, witnessing something that I’ve never seen before, or learning about a culture in ways I didn’t know – this is what puts the biggest smile on my face.
And now, I’ve dedicated my life to pursuing that happiness.
In 2010, knowing that I didn’t want travel to be something that only happened once or twice a year, I made the decision to permanently leave home in order to pursue it as a lifestyle.
In the time since, I’ve been an expat, working a 9-5 job abroad; a backpacker, bumming from one town to the next; and a transitory nomad, renting apartments for a month and then taking off again.
I am 110% in love with this lifestyle. And I have no plans to go home for a very, very long time.
Some of my more memorable travel adventures include…:
- getting shot at with live fireworks in Taiwan
- breaking my leg in South Korea, but then recovering in Japan
- working with mummies during an archaeological field school in Peru
- diving one of the most famous dive sites in the world in Malaysia
- travelling by train from Beijing overland to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian
- spotting pygmy elephants and wild orangutans in the jungles of Borneo
- backpacking Morocco as a solo 20-year old blonde gal…and living to tell the tale
- dropping all plans for a month to move to Georgia (the country, not the state)
- seeing something powerful during a night in the Negev
- ridesharing and Couchsurfing up the Pacific Northwest
- partying for 24 hours straight in Berlin
- disconnecting from the world with a nomadic family in Mongolia
- …and always being inspired to keep going for more!
All in all, people fascinate me. Travel sustains me. And an absolutely insatiable curiousity drives me.
Join me for the ride!
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Love your work.
Oh, thank you Neha!! :)
Hey! Love your photos. Just saw you on the TBEX site. I added your blog to our blogroll. Happy travels!
Kim
http://www.touncertaintyandbeyond.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/touncertaintyandbeyond/sets/
Oh WOW. I just checked out your site and absolutely love it! Thanks so much for coming by :)
Yay, I’m glad I found your site! Lovely photography, adding you to my blogroll :)
Hey pretty lady! Glad you found me….Matador is magic :)
Your blog is gorgeous! Totally bookmarked.
LOVE IT. Keep on rocking.
Stopped by on a recomendation from your Aunt Heather…AMAZING pictures and I really love your writing. I have bookmarked the site and will be visiting often. Reading about all the places you have been makes me want to throw a dart at the map and just take off :-)
Thank you!! It’s so wonderful to think that this blog could inspire others to travel, in whatever small way :)
Just started my own blog about my travels and stories from them. You have guts girl! Happy travels!
MM
http://muddymindsturpentine.blogspot.com/
Thank you darling ♥
Great blog. Are you on twitter too?
Just joined!! :)
I’m glad I clicked when I came across the link to your blog on another blog you had visited. Excellent combination of high class images and interesting personal travel insights.
All the best from Santiago…
Thank you Andrew!
I love your story, and I think I’m about to follow in your footsteps once I graduate. As a college student, it’s always great to see people who get to travel for a living, because it’s something I am so passionate about. Keep it up, girl! You rock!
Kay
Fantastic – can’t wait to hear about your adventures!! :)
Naomi, whats your work? you mention that you have to go back to work? What is that and how is money made. I keep traveling and I am looking for work.
Hustling. Hustling is my work ;) Teaching English has been the most prolific job to get, as well as the best paying, but once you start on the road, you encounter so many other opportunities to make money – writing online, photographing, even modelling or working as a film extra. Where are you based? If you’re in Thailand, I can definitely hook you up!
Hey Naomi! I’m an Italian girl, I came across your blog by reading HMS voyager’s and I just want to tell you that I love your work and everything you said in the “About” here above. I absolutely agree with your decision to leave home and dedicate your life to pursuing this sort of happiness. Hope to follow in your footsteps in the future.
Best greetings from Italy! If you happen to be in Calabria I will be glad to host you (:
P.s.=I’m sorry if mine is not a proper english!
love your site very cool safe travels :)
Wow… your About page just described my wildest dream, and you’re living it..!
Kudos to you Naomi, I wish you an extraordinary life..:-)
Thank you so much!! :)
Naomi I love your blog! I noticed you went to Peru but only wrote about Arequipa, did you see any more of the country? I loved the San Francisco Convent! They offer special dinners in the rooms there at night I want to go back just for that!!!
I did – I spent four weeks there for my archaeology field school. Hit up Lima and Moquegua as well as Arequipa…and still trying to word my post on working with mummies, ha! ;)
“Working with mummies” sounds like a name for a good fiction book. I’ll look out for it! My wife visited “Juanita”, it wasn’t her thing, she prefers taking photos of people in the streets, stoic faces… etc. I would have enjoyed that more.