Melange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine July 2020 | Page 62

BLOG: Adventures of an Island Girl
WEBSITE: www.alybiz.com
Since its creation in 2011, Alyssa’s blog,
Adventures of an Island Girl, has been an
entertaining chronicle of her adventures as she
travelled through the United States, Canada,
Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and at home in
Grenada.
Alyssa Bierzynski
In 2019, Alyssa resigned from her position as a
university lecturer to pursue her dream of writing
stories inspired by the world around her. Now,
as the blog continues to grow, Alyssa sees it
as a space to inspire and provide resources for
Caribbean travellers looking to create their own
adventures.
was supposed to leave
I
Grenada on April 8th.
Instead, that one-way ticket
is now a travel credit with a
use-by date that keeps getting
extended.
Other than a dream to travel
the world and write about it,
I didn’t have much of a plan
when I said goodbye to my
job in 2019. With a growing
travel wish list, I agonized over
whether I had it in me to be a
fearless female solo traveller.
Turns out I did, and took my
first solo trip to New Zealand,
ending 2019 with a bang.
When 2020 dawned full of
promising adventures for this
island girl, I was sure of two
things: that I was finally going
to play mas’ in Trinidad, and
when I left Grenada in April, I
wouldn’t be back home for a
while.
Like many other travellers, I
naively thought that Covid-19
wouldn’t affect all of my travel
plans. “April is still a month
away, it’ll be fine.” “My travel
conference isn’t until May,
it’ll be fine.” “Well, my writing
course is in July, maybe it won’t