Celebrating 12 years of living and traveling abroad and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
On this site, you’ll find helpful travel guides, many of which focus on Southeast Asia and the UAE, as well as posts about what it’s really like living abroad in Dubai. I have a thing for slow travel and can often be found spending months on end in a new city!
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Hi, I’m Justine! I’m a freelance writer and California native who set out to backpack around Southeast Asia in 2013 and never looked back. This blog is all about my life as a perpetual traveler and roaming expat (currently living in Dubai and blogging at Dubai Dreaming). Oh, and I kinda like to talk about vegetarian food too! But who am I really?
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Living my dream of slowly exploring the world.
I never in a million years thought I’d still be living abroad 10 years later but I can’t imagine ever going back. From taking the leap of moving to Jakarta on a whim in 2014 to now living in Dubai, a place I had never even imagined traveling to, it’s been a wild ride. And I wouldn’t have it any other way!
