Heyooo! Curious about me?
I’m Jona, mother of felines, hoarder of books, notebooks, and plants.
I’m from Cebu, Philippines. Proud Bisdak. I have been in this traveling stint for so long. It has been more than ten years. It started with trekking mountains in the Philippines.
In my mid-20s, I had this desire to travel around solo. So I did. I traveled around and juggled several titles. My byline could be seen for Rappler, Interaksyon, Sun.Star, The Philippine Star, Manila Bulletin, Scoot, and Smile.
I lived in Vietnam for four years, did the very things that make me happy: teaching things that matter (hello, social, political, environmental, and economic issues!) and continued working on my poetry manuscript (still working on that second poetry collection) while helping small-scale businesses for content and marketing services.
And now I am based in Munich, Germany in foreseeable future. I write for money. ๐ You can find me on JonaDesigns for content and copywriting services and HomeHums.com for my life in Munich, Germany.
I wonder what brought you to this particular page? This little space, despite the years and evolution of everyone’s attention span, has a dedicated readers and followers.
So hit me up for collaborations and partnerships: backpackingwithabook[at]gmail[dot]com.
Jona of backpackingwithabook.com
P.S. I’m more active on Instagram: @jonajournals ๐
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