
39 countries // 6 years on the road // 167,262 words written

Exploring the world through story
Hey 👋 My name’s Anna, and I’m a self professed Scanner and Digital Nomad from New Zealand.
I’m a writer and adventurer, remote undergrad student, humanitarian aid volunteer, and Happiness Engineer at Automattic (amongst many other things!)
Anna Meanders is a space for me to share stories, photos, and share gratitude – it’s a place of travel, culture, food, language and exploring things that matter.

Despite the year being utterly bizarre, it seems to be over about as quickly as it began! It’s hard to imagine a year ago I was in Martinique, planning for a North American Christmas visit then onto Tokyo for New Years!
It’s not been the 2020 we wanted, but it’s the 2020 we’ve got – and although it’s been challenging, there’s been a lot of good too. This is what I’d like to focus on, all the good bits that managed to slip through the cracks of a chaotic and strange year.
I’ve been so thankful to spend a year back home with my family, rediscovering my fabulous home country and living a much less transitory existence than I am normally used to. Buying a car, renting an apartment, having a small garden – none of these were on the forecast for this year, yet I am enjoying the change of pace that comes with these things.
This blog has been on a bit of a hiatus – so much so, in fact, that I didn’t post a November update. That’s because life got real busy all of a sudden with university exams, relocating up to Auckland, and my first attempt at celebrating US thanksgiving!
But things haven’t been entirely static, you may notice a new design on the site that I’ve been working away on migrating to, and a new photo blog section to contain more short-form and image based updates, as well as a brand new newsletter design & content! So stay tuned, as things around here are gearing up for more travel writing and updates as we plough on ahead into a new year!
Collections
Sometimes one story isn’t quite enough, threads of writing are tied together by connections that make them best enjoyed together.
Collections are stories that share a common bond or theme. You can see all the different collections here.
Latest from the photo blog
The Photo Blog is where I share short snippets of my day-to-day – less long form, more pictures.
Visit the full photo blog here
Featured Places
Where am I daydreaming about right now? What am I writing the most on? Here’s my currently featured places