Travel & People.

Photographs and sentiments of the world.

There is a time for us to wonder, when time is young, and so are we.

The woods are green, they’re over yonder, the path is new, the world is free.

— The Dillards

The travel story… (briefly).

Christmas of 2023: I had a sort of limited mindset in what I felt like I could do with my life. That week, I read the first and the last page of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, and I finally felt a stroke of encouragement to follow through with some of the wonder I’d been holding back.

I booked my first trip. That spring I spent a week in Holland, returned home, then immediately started planning a two-month European trip for later that summer. I left, learned, and returned to once again begin planning & budgeting out an even longer trip.

The following spring in 2025— a year after my first trip— I left for six months. It became as easy as water to prioritize, to save up for, and to completely adjust my lifestyle for the sake of traveling. This was because it wasn’t just

about leaving home and seeing something else— it was finding out more about my self, and meeting indelible people that would change the way I view the world.

What else?

I’ve always loved to write, and I had been falling in love with photography for the last couple years. I packed my camera, pen, and paper everywhere I went. They were always in my backpack, fanny pack, or my pocket if I was just on a stroll. I also carried my audio recorder, in case I met someone I wanted to interview.

Documenting life influenced the way I traveled. It was my excuse to learn about people and their stories, and to stew on their words after.

Iceland (2023)

Patricia (left) alongside Gabriele (right) photographing the seagulls.

“I go on these trips for him. I’m not a photographer, I just help him.”

— Patricia

Thailand; Bangkok, Nong Khai, Islands.

April-June 2025 I landed in Bangkok on the last day of Song Kran, the Thai New Year’s celebration. I had no idea. My hostel was on Kao San road, and after joining the festivities I crashed, even with the party continuing loud and clear from below. I had been up for 32 hours.

I didn’t have my camera to document, since I made the weighty (fellow photographers will understand this) decision to leave my larger camera with a friend in the UK

This meant I had arrived with a mission— I was finally going to buy a travel-friendly camera for the rest of my tour. Call it forcing my own hand, ‘cause at this point I’d been pushing it off for months.

This is how I landed with my Fuji Film X-T30.

I traveled from Bangkok to Nong Khai on a volunteer experience. Though it was some of the hardest work and most uncomfortable I have been (surrounded by unknowns, Thailand heat, wild animals, etc), it was also the most rewarding of all my travels

After a couple weeks there, I saw a picture of South Thailand. So I booked it down there and spent the rest of May on the islands.