🌍 The World Through My Eyes ✨

I am called Valentina Zanetti—digital anthropologist by daytime, perpetual wanderlust by night. In what I have been doing? A never-ending journey to unravel this planet’s spirit, one borderless adventure at a time. 🌏✈️

I didn’t choose the life of travel; it chose me. I was born in a tiny village in Italy. I would trace maps with my finger and dream of places that smelled of spices and were alive with languages I didn’t even understand. At the age of 19, I sold my textbooks for a one-way ticket to Bangkok. No plan. No regrets. Just a backpack and my imagination running wild about what if.

A decade later (and 63 countries later) I have danced with shamans in the Amazon, drank moonshine with nomads in Siberia, and gotten hopelessly lost inside the neon maze that is Tokyo—twice. But here's the rub: I don’t only visit places. I dissect them. As a digital anthropologist, I look at how cultures converge, collide, and evolve in our hyper-connected world. Why do Gen Zers in Lagos and Lisbon dance to the same TikTok trends? How did a meme born in Mumbai make its way onto a mural in Montreal? That's the magic I pursue. 🔍✨

Of course, my life is not all sunset selfies and artisanal coffee (although, to be honest, it is that too). It’s also blisters from hiking volcanoes in Ecuador. It’s bribing someone for a spot on a cargo ship down the Mekong. It’s crying in the 7-Eleven in Taipei because I finally found real parmesan cheese after 6 months of travel. Travel is not pretty—it’s real. And so am I. 💃

So here’s my promise to you, no clichés or ‘top 10 hidden gems’ bullshit, just unfiltered accounts from the edge of the map. Travel is not a checklist; it is a living, breathing thing. And we’re all just guests darling. 🍃

P.S. Yes, I am probably at an airport right now. And no, I don’t know where my socks are. 🙃