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Travel & Adventures
These aren’t just travel stories. They’re pieces of becoming. I’ve wandered through more than 40 countries, not just to see the world but to remember who I am inside it. Some trips began in heartbreak. Some were healing. Some were escape. But all of them offered me a window back to myself.
This series is my love letter to the places that held me when I needed something bigger than answers. Each one a chapter in the story of a woman learning to be her own home.


The First Bite
This morning, I took the first bite of scrambled eggs by the ocean. Just eggs, nothing elaborate. Paired with a slice of fried plantain,...
Hien Mindy Nguyen
Jun 122 min read


El Zonte
I didn’t come here to be seen. I came to disappear a little. To lay my tired bones somewhere the world couldn’t reach me. No big...
Hien Mindy Nguyen
Jun 103 min read


Sauce on my cheek, sun on my chest
I arrived in Naples just after the world started breathing again-November 2022. The year the stillness cracked open. I was supposed to...
Hien Mindy Nguyen
Jun 104 min read


Window Seat
I’ve always loved flying. But the first time I truly felt like a traveler, I wasn’t in the sky- I was on a train, leaving everything I...
Hien Mindy Nguyen
May 254 min read


I found myself in Rome
Ten years ago, I stepped off a plane and into Rome with a backpack and a shattered name. I was thirty, newly divorced, a mother of two,...
Hien Mindy Nguyen
Apr 284 min read


The Night the Desert Sang
Marrakech, 2019 It was supposed to be Portugal. Lisbon, in late spring, gray skies, a cool breeze, and a quiet city that felt strangely...
Hien Mindy Nguyen
Apr 53 min read
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