Christmas on the coast
Barbados
Coconut Court · 65 archive photographsA partial-ocean-view room, breakfast included, and the first surviving chapter in the booking archive.
03 · THE TRAVEL EDIT
The Art of Going
The plans were elaborate. The pictures made them personal. These are the itineraries, rituals, and afterglow from a life with room to move.
FIFTEEN YEARS · EAT, PRAY, LOVE
I did not disappear.
I returned to myself.
Sometimes loving myself meant leaving the familiar behind. I booked the room, chose the villa, ordered the beautiful meal, and gave myself enough distance to remember who I was when nobody needed anything from me.
THE PASSPORT LEDGER
Fifteen years of choosing myself—one reservation at a time.
This is not a bucket list. It is a receipt: booking confirmations, dated photographs, real stays, and a woman making room for her own life.
2012—26the surviving archive
20+documented destinations
700+matched camera-roll captures
5continents in the story
New Year by the water
St. Maarten
Atrium Beach Resort · 20 archive photographsEight nights crossing into a new year with the beach close enough to set the pace.
The beach-villa chapter
Aruba
Aruba Beach Villas · 14 archive photographsThree nights, blue water, and one camera-roll image that still looks like a campaign.
Two islands, two villas
Turks & Caicos · St. Martin
Neptune Villas · Le Flamboyant · 171 photographsThe year the island habit became a language: villas, water, privacy, and enough distance to hear myself think.
The long-haul leap
Tokyo · Bangkok · Phuket
Sardonyx Ueno · lebua · Naiyang · 362 capturesTokyo precision, Bangkok gold, Phuket air—the camera roll proves I was never afraid to go farther.
Riviera rooms and boat beginnings
Nice · Long Island Sound
Riviera Le Colisée · Airbnb speedboat stayA South of France apartment and a night on the water—ten years before the Monaco yacht diary.
Island light and city motion
Greece · Barcelona · Cancún
Poseidon · Free Hostels Barcelona · 55 matched photographsAegean mornings, a Barcelona landing, and a Caribbean exhale stitched into one restless year.
Mediterranean to medina
Tel Aviv · Cartagena · Marrakech
Embassy Hotel · private apartment · Riad OmaraThree cities with completely different rhythms—and proof that luxury can mean design, privacy, or simply waking somewhere new.
Villa life and a stylish layover
Cape Town · Amsterdam
Camps Bay villa · YOTELAIR SchipholSix villa nights facing Cape Town, then an Amsterdam pause that made even the in-between feel intentional.
Water, again and again
Cancún · Santorini
All Ritmo · El Greco Resort & SpaA return to Caribbean ease, followed by three Aegean nights with a terrace and the island doing the rest.
The family grand tour
London · Barcelona · Paris
Three-city route · surviving workbookThe original planning sheet preserved the route. The photographs preserved what the spreadsheet could not.
Family joy and island time
California · Waikiki
Two complete day-by-day itinerariesLos Angeles with the whole crew, then Thanksgiving in Waikiki with cabanas, spa time, e-bikes, and dinners worth dressing for.
City light to yacht life
Paris · Nice · Monaco
Eight-day itinerary · Monaco boat diaryParis set the tone, Nice softened it, and Monaco turned the ending into a film.
THE BOAT ERA HAS RECEIPTS
Long Island Sound, 2016.
Monaco, 2026.
Ten years before the Monaco boat diary, an Airbnb confirmation already had me spending the night on the water. The yacht was not a random flex. It was the grown-woman version of a story I had been writing for years.
See what ten years later looked like →
WATCH ON INSTAGRAMTHE AFTER FILMS · FRANCE 2026
The itinerary ended. The story kept moving.
Paris set the tone. Nice softened the pace. Monaco took the whole trip over the top—with a yacht in the harbor and the kind of laughter no spreadsheet can schedule. The reels carry the motion, the voices, and the joy the still photographs cannot hold by themselves.
“We chartered a boat for a few days in Monaco. And it has been one of our top-tier trips.”
FROM THE CAMERA ROLL
The itinerary is the skeleton.
The pictures are the pulse.
A living visual timeline, arranged around the trips that first existed as color-coded plans.
Aruba, exactly as I meant to remember it.
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A New Year with the ocean out front
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Gold, blue, heat, and wonder
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The view from choosing rest
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California in full color
Get the Look →The night the itinerary became the story
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VERIFIED FROM THE PHOTO MAP
The map knew
there was more.
The location history in the original camera files confirms a much wider archive than one city or one trip. Exact coordinates stay private; the destination chapters belong in the story.
Barbados2012 / The horseback chapterOpen photograph ->St. Maarten2013 / New Year by the waterOpen photograph ->Bangkok2015 / Gold, blue, heat, and wonderOpen photograph ->
Phuket2016 / The long-haul leapOpen photograph ->
Nice2016 / Riviera rooms and old stoneOpen photograph ->Santorini2017 / The view from choosing restOpen photograph ->
Johannesburg + Gauteng2019 / Before the Cape Town villaOpen photograph ->
Cape Town2019 / Villa life at golden hourOpen photograph ->London + Paris2023 / The family grand tourOpen photograph ->Also confirmed in the archive: Tokyo, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Cartagena, Barcelona, and Los Angeles. More chapters will be added only when the photography is strong enough to earn the space.
SOUTH AFRICA · THE REAL CAMERA ROLL
South Africa was never
one city.
The photo map confirms Johannesburg, a Gauteng wildlife chapter, Cape Town, and the Winelands. These are the photographs from the actual May 2019 trip—the animals, the villa, the table, the sunset, the rhythm, and the color that made the itinerary worth keeping.
The first Cape Town view
The wildlife chapter began before Cape Town
Eye to eye with the giraffe
A close encounter, exactly as it happened
A toast in the Winelands
The birthday look
Villa mornings, produced properly
Golden hour at the villa
The view before dinner
Dinner, rhythm, and GOLD
Bo-Kaap in full color
FAMILY STYLE · WORN AROUND THE WORLD
The Passport
Wardrobe.
She did not just buy the clothes. She gave them a destination.
Every villa, rooftop, yacht, beach club, and dinner reservation became a living lookbook—with each wearer credited only when a photograph proves the look.26archived order confirmations
139distinct pieces already catalogued
1shared family style archive
1authentic ambassador story
01SAJUAN
Riviera color
- Tropical-print cami dresses
- Peacock-feather bodycon
- Split-side geo prints
The kind of dresses that arrive folded in a parcel and leave with a passport stamp.
02SAJUAN
Swim + sand
- Color-block one-pieces
- Striped cutout swim
- Sheer and fringed cover-ups
Pool deck, catamaran, beach club: each look chosen for the life waiting outside the room.
03SAJUAN
City tailoring
- Statement blazers
- Wide-leg trousers
- Graphic jumpsuits
Strong silhouettes for rooftops, reservations, and walking into a new city like it already knows your name.
04SAJUAN
The finishing edit
- Straw bags and hats
- Platform sandals
- Jewelry and hair pieces
The accessories were never extras. They were punctuation.
05FAMILY STYLE
Shared travel layers
- Zip-front jackets
- Hooded travel layers
- Breathable sport tees
Menswear is part of the family closet—comfortable enough for the route and sharp enough for the arrival, without assuming who wore it.
06SHARED STYLE
Across the family
- Airport coordination
- Resort color stories
- Dinner-ready pairings
Not matching. Curated—a family wardrobe speaking the same visual language wherever the itinerary lands.
THE PARTNERSHIP CASE
“We were customers before anybody asked us to be creators.”
Repeat purchases. A real family wardrobe. Years of styling. Original travel photography and video. The collaboration is already visible—the partnership would simply put a name to it.
THE ITINERARY ARCHIVE
Planned in detail.
Lived in full.
Open a chapter for the real day-by-day rhythm: where to slow down, where to dress up, what to anchor, and what to leave open.
01Paris · Nice · MonacoJuly 2026 · 8 days
City light to yacht life
A deliberately paced France finale: fashion and music in Paris, a Riviera pause in Nice, then two glamorous nights aboard a yacht in Monaco.
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New York to Paris
- Evening departure for Paris.
- Hydrate, settle in, and sleep on the overnight flight.
Arrive softly
- Land in Paris and transfer to the city base.
- Cafe lunch, a Seine walk, and light neighborhood shopping.
- Classic bistro dinner followed by an early night.
Fashion, pastry, and music
- Galeries Lafayette and Boulevard Haussmann shopping.
- Philippe Conticini pastry stop inside Galeries Lafayette Gourmet.
- Rest, dress, then steak at Black Angus Republique.
- Jon B at Bizz'Art, with Therapy Paris as the optional late-night finish.
Paris classics and photographs
- Eiffel Tower and Trocadero photo moment.
- Lunch near Rue Cler or on the Left Bank.
- Seine walk, boutiques, and optional Louvre or Tuileries exterior photographs.
- Left Bank dinner or rooftop drinks.
Montmartre finale
- Sacre-Coeur, Rue de Steinkerque, Place du Tertre, and the hidden streets.
- Philippe Conticini Cafe Montmartre for something sweet.
- Slow wandering and photographs before sunset drinks at Terrass' Hotel.
- Dinner at Edmond or a nearby Montmartre favorite.
Paris to Nice to Monaco
- Morning flight to Nice, with luggage handled before the fun begins.
- Beach-club or pool window at N La Plage.
- Early Riviera dinner at Le Patio.
- Private transfer to Monte Carlo, yacht check-in, and champagne on deck.
Monaco in full
- Coffee on deck, a harbor walk, and Casino Square photographs.
- Cafe de Paris or a polished harbor lunch.
- Choose yacht time, Monte Carlo Beach, the Japanese Garden, or luxury shopping.
- Crown-jewel dinner at Le Grill, followed by Casino Square at night.
One last Riviera morning
- Breakfast aboard the yacht.
- Transfer to Nice Airport with a generous coast-to-airport buffer.
- Fly home with the camera roll doing overtime.
The Sajuan rule: schedule the anchors, then leave enough air for the outfit, the photograph, and the moment.
02California Family WeekJuly 2025 · 5 days
Los Angeles, together
A family-first Los Angeles week that mixed big-ticket fun with beach time, reunions, and just enough room to reset between events.
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Arrival and Echo Park after dark
- Morning flight from New York to Los Angeles.
- Check into the Inglewood home base, stock the kitchen, organize outfits, and enjoy the pool.
- Evening pedal-swan ride at Echo Park.
Santa Monica daycation
- Morning daycation at Regent Santa Monica.
- Venice Beach, Santa Monica Pier, rides, aquarium, and a beach stroll.
- Dinner at The Albright on the pier.
- Private family meet-and-greet in the evening.
VIP thrills and a beach picnic
- Early departure for the Universal Studios VIP experience.
- Backlot tour, rides, and lunch.
- Return to the home base to reset.
- Dockweiler State Beach picnic with volleyball, dominoes, and family games.
Hollywood and the family banquet
- Hollywood Boulevard and a hop-on, hop-off city loop.
- Walk of Fame, Dolby Theatre, and Madame Tussauds.
- Afternoon rest and wardrobe change.
- Private family banquet in the evening.
Home with a full camera roll
- Early airport departure.
- Morning flight back to New York.
- Land, unpack, and let the group chat keep the trip alive.
The Sajuan rule: alternate high-energy attractions with an easy home base and real recovery windows.
03London · Barcelona · ParisAugust 2023 · archive outline
The family grand tour
The surviving workbook preserves the bones of a multi-city family trip: London first, Barcelona in the middle, and Paris as the glowing final chapter.
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New York to London
- Overnight departure from New York.
- A soft London arrival with breakfast and neighborhood time.
London to Barcelona
- Airport transfer and a short flight south.
- Barcelona becomes the central family chapter.
Barcelona together
- Walkable city days arranged around food, family time, and room to wander.
- A flexible arrival window lets the group come together without overbooking the day.
Paris finale
- The trip closes in Paris.
- Eiffel Tower light, photographs, and one final European dinner.
Archive note: the original workbook saved the route and dates, but not the finished activity details. This chapter stays true to what survived.
04Cape TownMay 2019 · 7 days
Adventure with a villa rhythm
A birthday-week itinerary with private-chef ease at the center and Cape Town's biggest scenery, food, and adventure radiating out from it.
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Welcome to the villa
- Arrive, unpack, and settle into the house.
- Special welcome dinner prepared at the villa.
Table Mountain to karaoke
- Sleep in, followed by a chef-prepared villa breakfast.
- Half-day Table Mountain and city tour, including the cable car.
- Sunset cruise, Korean barbecue at Galbi, and optional karaoke at Manila Bar.
Wine country and safari
- Early chef-prepared breakfast.
- Full-day wine, beer, and African safari experience.
- Return to dinner prepared at the villa.
Waterfront, helicopter, and GOLD
- Villa breakfast and souvenir shopping at the V&A Waterfront.
- Two Oceans scenic helicopter flight.
- African dinner and drumming experience at GOLD.
- Late evening left open for whatever the city suggests.
Choose your adventure
- Grab breakfast on the go.
- Choose a full-day adventure: ziplining, quad biking, and sandboarding - or a private Big Five safari.
- Birthday dinner at Pigalle.
- Optional late-night Cape Town chapter.
Birthday villa day
- Choose an optional adrenaline morning - shark-cage diving, a Cape Peninsula tour, or skydiving - or simply sleep in.
- Chef-prepared birthday brunch at the villa.
- At-home spa afternoon and a weather-dependent group photograph.
- Villa dinner and an optional night at Cocoon.
A slow goodbye
- Keep the day at leisure.
- Late villa checkout where available.
- Departures stagger through the afternoon and evening.
The Sajuan rule: make the villa part of the vacation - not just the place where everybody sleeps.
05WaikikiNovember 2025 · 5 days
Thanksgiving in island time
A polished holiday escape built around sunsets, cabanas, e-bikes, spa time, and dinner reservations worth dressing for.
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Arrival and ease-in glow
- Check into the Sheraton Waikiki and begin with welcome drinks at the Edge Infinity Pool.
- Sunset and hula at House Without a Key.
- Dinner at La Vie, followed by a RumFire nightcap.
Brunch, cabana, and sunset sail
- Rooftop brunch at Deck Waikiki.
- Edge pool cabana with champagne and poke nachos.
- Sunset sail with Mai Tai Catamaran or Holokai.
- Dinner at Duke's and rooftop cocktails at Sky Waikiki.
E-bikes and a dressy dinner
- Rent e-bikes and ride toward the Kahala Hotel.
- A long afternoon at the Moana Surfrider Beach Bar.
- Dress for dinner at 53 By The Sea.
- Finish with live-music lounge energy at Lewers Lounge.
Spa, shopping, and Thanksgiving Eve
- Morning treatment at Moana Lani Spa.
- Lunch and shopping at Ala Moana Center.
- Golden-hour drinks at Edge Bar.
- Thanksgiving Eve dinner at Orchids or Hau Tree, with Sky Waikiki or Buho afterward.
Ocean brunch and departure glow
- Oceanfront brunch at Hau Tree or Hula Grill.
- Check out and take one final beach walk.
- Head to the airport rested, photographed, and fully fed.
The Sajuan rule: island time works best when the dinner reservation, sunscreen, and portable charger are already handled.
The Well-Packed Edit
The cooling, charging, and organizing pieces that make an ambitious itinerary feel effortless.