💡 From China to Hawaii: 3 Travel Guides I Wrote at 30,000 Feet
3 new travel guides — from China’s tech city to Maui’s quiet magic — written somewhere over the Pacific.
I’m writing this somewhere over the Pacific, half caffeinated, half jet-lagged, and fully in my feelings after six weeks of travel through China — capped off with one very necessary Maui intermission that I spent with family and Kyle.
Here’s what I’ve been working on mid-flight (because apparently, I can’t not write while in motion):
🌺 Travel Guide: Maui, Hawaii
After the chaos of China’s megacities, Maui felt like a collective exhale — warm trade winds, saltwater serenity, and infinity pools that make time irrelevant.
If you’re craving ocean views, resort life, and a place where your only to-do is “exist,” this one’s for you.
👉 Read the full Maui travel guide.
🤖 Travel Guide: Shenzhen, China
Billed as China’s Silicon Valley, Shenzhen promised robots and innovation — and delivered… malls. So many malls.
It’s a city of construction cranes and copy-paste gadgets, better suited to business trips than bucket lists. I tell the truth, so you don’t waste your passport pages.
👉 Read the Shenzhen travel guide.
🧋Travel Guide: Hong Kong
I arrived ready for neon alleys and cinematic chaos — and found a city still mourning its past glow.
Between milk tea, spellcasters under freeways, and a surprisingly joyful Disneyland detour, Hong Kong was complicated, beautiful, and offbeat in all the ways travel sometimes is.
👉 Read the Hong Kong travel guide.
It’s been such a joy to travel again — and one of the many reasons I curate the ✍️ Make Writing Your Job job board is to help more writers do the same.
I’m deeply grateful that I get to write for a living, from a laptop that’s seen a few too many TSA bins. After this whirlwind stretch of planes, subways, ferries, and infinity pools, I’m looking forward to writing (and resetting) from my home in San Francisco for a bit.
Now that I’m no longer a full-time digital nomad, I’ve learned to love the part of travel that’s about coming home. My sunny apartment. My too-fluffy bed. The neighborhood coffee shop that never judges my order. Gratitude for that — for what I get to return to — is the kind of souvenir I’ll never stop collecting.
Sending you warm writing vibes,
-Amy