Hi, I’m Maya. I travel slowly and write honestly.

For eleven years I taught seventh-grade geography in Denver. I spent every summer break chasing the places on my classroom map with a carry-on and a spreadsheet, and every fall I came back with more stories than my students had patience for.

In the spring of 2023 I rented out my apartment, sold the car and bought a one-way ticket to Lisbon. The plan was one year. Three years and forty-seven countries later, I still travel the way I did on those summer breaks: slowly, on a real budget, with long stays in a few places instead of a checklist of many.

Voyager is where I keep it all: the itineraries that worked, the money I actually spent, the mistakes I made so you don’t have to, and the small moments that made a place stay with me. Everything here is paid for by me unless I clearly say otherwise.