I’m Alana. I write, I travel and I live.

Over the past five years, I’ve started transferring my thoughts from my head through my fingertips and onto the plastic keys of my laptop. What transpired is a collection of honest and anecdotal blog articles.

My first brain-child began as online diary for my 2015 year of travel around the world. Allama With A Backpack was a regular update of life on the road – from Myanmar through the Indian subcontinent and ending with an adventurous and somewhat precarious drive from London to Mongolia in a completely unsuitable vehicle. At the end of the trip, the blog naturally became a travel blog, with further additions from smaller trips.

My second project came on my 28th birthday when I realised I wasn’t travelling as much as I used to. Instead, I was living. I was living my life as a Melbourne woman fighting her way through her late-twenties. It covers the highs and lows of Life In Your Late Twenties – from food, relationships, finances, careers. The good, the bad and the ugly.

But all of that came to a halt, when the next chapter of my life started looming around the corner. The “adult gap year”. The ultimate adventure. I made the tough decision to throw in life as I know it, buy a one way ticket to Alaska and get a van and a motorbike and navigate my way through the America’s to the most southern point in the world – Ushuaia, Argentina. This was just travel… this was an adventure. This is Chasing Patagonia.

My name is Alana. I write. I travel. And I live.