Hi everyone! Thank you for dropping by!
I'm Joann and I started this travel journal when I was 24 years old. I'm a multi-passionate person and traveling is just one of my never-ending passion list :)
Chasing Places was created to document all my trips, adventures, misadventures, and lessons learned along the road.
I've never been known in the family, not even in my circle of friends as someone who's into traveling. I have almost nonexistent social life back then. I was this competitive student whose definition of success and happiness in life is landing on a high-paying job with that awesome job title ;) The only 'travel' experiences that I had back then were out-of-town trips, mostly for family reunions. However, I have secretly dreamt of traveling the world.
It was June 2011 when I had my first plane ride and the first out-of-town experience spent not for family reunions or funerals. Together with my parents, we went to Cebu and Bohol to see what these places have. Since then, I couldn't take my mind off exploring new places. Yes, I've been bitten by the travel bug.
Traveling has changed my perception with happiness, success, and has even helped me improved the way I interact with people.
I hope in some ways, this blog will be able to help you plan your travel or somehow, make you smile :)
Tara, let's travel!