I’m madie., a travel blogger living in Taiwan. With 2+ years of solo travel and over 200 blog posts, you may be wondering how I do it all while backpacking around the world. Here’s my story ……
A short history
Born and raised in Hong Kong, I was fortunate to be able to study English extensively at a young age and to pursue a computer science program at a university in Taipei.
Like most Hong Kongers, I got a job immediately after graduating from university and started working as a web developer and trying to climb the usual corporate ladder like everyone else. At the time, I never dreamed of a travel lifestyle because we didn’t have the same travel culture as the West and because at the time I was earning about $600 a month, which seemed almost impossible. With a salary like that, you would think that the job would be easy, but on the contrary, due to the nature of my position as a customer technical service and the fact that I was dealing with a large client in the US, it was extremely demanding and stressful only to be perfect. Coupled with the time zone difference, I found myself working late into the night a lot in hopes that I would have less work the next day. This went on for 3 years until I was finally exhausted and vowed never to get involved in the corporate world again.
I first started freelancing as a photographer in 2017 and began traveling the world solo and documenting my journey through writing and filmmaking, and that’s how it all began.
