I grew up in Curitiba, Brazil, spent a year in Dublin getting used to grey skies and public transit that ran on its own logic (translation: I was late more than I’d like to admit), and landed in Florida in 2018 — Jupiter, Orlando, Lake Park, close enough to smell the ocean but far enough that people stop assuming that’s the whole story.
That’s the short version. The longer one is that I’ve spent most of my adult life being the new person somewhere: the one still learning the language, still figuring out which bus actually stops where the app says it will, still noticing how different a place looks once you’ve lived in it instead of just visited it. I have a Tourism Management degree, and I use it less as a résumé line and more as permission to keep digging past the version of a place that shows up in every photo — the one where nothing’s inconvenient and everything’s in soft focus.
That’s what this site is for. I got tired of South Florida getting flattened into beaches and theme parks in every piece of travel content out there, when there’s a version of this place — museums nobody puts on a top-ten list, day trips that don’t need a rental car or a translator app — that barely gets written about in any real detail. I want to tell you when something’s a hassle: bad parking, an odd opening schedule, a language barrier worth planning around. That’s the stuff that actually decides whether a trip goes well, and it’s the stuff most guides skip.
Brazil is next. It’s where I’m from, and I’ll be back there for a while before I know what comes after — maybe I stay, maybe I end up somewhere new. Either way, the questions I ask about a museum in Stuart are the same ones I’ll be asking about a town in Paraná: what’s actually worth the detour, what nobody tells you beforehand, what makes a place worth understanding instead of just photographing. South Florida content keeps coming in the meantime, and Brazil coverage starts now with what I can cover from a distance.
If there’s a place you want me to dig into, or a specific worry that’s kept you from booking something — the language barrier, the logistics that feel impossible to plan from your couch — tell me. That’s genuinely useful, and it’ll shape what I write next.
And if you’re a brand, a tourism board, or anyone else who thinks there’s a fit here: reach out. I’m open to partnerships, as long as they’re the kind that fit what this site actually is.
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Moments caught between journeys and reflections, each telling its own story.
