Reflections, Musings, Rants & Stories from the road.
My parents wanted to name me Anjulina, but the Nepali nurse (who was probably more familiar with Anjali as most Hindus would be) wrote ‘a’ instead of ‘u’ on my birth certificate; so its Anjalina now. That was in Hong Kong. My family came back to India in 1994 and that’s when my life and personality changed 180 degrees. Life’s been rock and roll since! I’ve always enjoyed adventure and moving around, so I even got a degree in Travel/Tourism (Management), only to realise that the job wouldn’t have me travel so much as I would have wanted. Huh!
But my real ‘travel’ was a trek I made to Muktinath, Nepal in 2010 that had me fall in love with travel, trekking, mountains, nature and the sheer joy of meeting people, being in different places, seeing new cultures and everything tourism could bring to an individual. Some time around then, I was even assisting for a travel documentary show. It was a dream job! But again, I discovered I was an introverted extrovert after all, a bit too shy for the camera (Also the reason why I could never get onto vlogging myself). I changed careers, life happened and in 2015 I finally started a blog. But! Whaam! Social media barged into the world, before I could even understand what was happening. Instagram took over, and I scrapped my blog because it didn’t have a niche and vlogs had overtaken the market anyway. Sometimes I wonder if I had just continued doing travel, maybe I would have been a successful travel/trek guide or a cool travel writer. Anyway!
Fast-forward to 2025 now. I took a trip after a long time and ended up taking so many photographs, like in the olden days, that I wanted to share and utilise them. But more than that, the people I met on the road, the stories I’ve collected, reminded me of my love for travel. My faith in travel, my teacher.
So here I am, where I should have stayed, sharing simple stories from my travels, for a chilled out, easy-going, slow content-loving audience who can relate with me. No itineraries, travel tips and advice, because come on, there are tons of amazing people already doing that. I did enough of that in my first travel job anyway!
In a world ruled by trends, algorithms, reels and videos, I have no idea what I’m headed for. I’m mostly here to document my encounters, give my photos a place, and because I kind of miss writing. So, if you like light-hearted reads, raw writings, occasional wit, humour and rants, then I would love to have you stay here with me. I hope you’ll find some meaning being here 🙂
Thank you!
P.S. This decides it for you-
- I try to leave my hometown at least once a year, but when I’m not on the road, I help run our family Airbnb homestay in Mirik
- Indian of Nepali ethnicity living an identity crisis since forever
- I was excellent at academics, research & teaching, but gave up a PhD & Professor career
- I love collecting/keeping boxes 🫢
- I used to collect stamps and postcards in the letter-writing era. Leave me your address if you would like a postcard/letter sent 🙂
- Dark chocolate any day!
- I am a certified yoga/face yoga trainer
- Cat person; curiosity might kill me too someday
- After my post-graduation, on the last day with my mentor, it came down to me wanting to open a bookstore cafe- what a waste of the degree haha but I keep coming back to it now and then… maybe one day 😊
- A multipotentialite- I take the ‘potential’ part very seriously 😄
- I donated my hair to a cancer cause
- I have never-ending to-do lists
- I also collect way more books than I read, and have a never-ending TBR list
- Tree hugger
- I’m talkative, which helps with travel, but also as an introverted extrovert, I can sit quietly by myself, overthinking for God only knows how many hours!
- I can switch between being optimistic to cynical at the drop of a hat
- I read articles on culture, environment, history, travel/tourism
- I’m trying to publish a book- Pls consider supporting my publishing journey
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