Hi, I’m Tiffany — welcome to my one-bag travel blog.

I’m a minimalist traveler and runner who loves the freedom of one-bag travel. These days, I travel with just one everyday-sized backpack, and I prefer to let my two feet carry me to explore new places. Ever since I started traveling this way, I’ve fallen in love with the way one-bag travel has allowed me to spend less time worrying about the things I’m carrying and more time enjoying the sights around me.

This blog is where I share the things I love most: carefully planned and efficient itineraries, running routes that allow you to explore new cities, packing lists that allow indefinite travel, and reflections on how to live well with less. Most of my trips are a mix of tight, active itineraries and low-key wandering, some mixing in full-time remote work, and some unplugged and fully on the move. I’m also big on finding ways to be active while, whether through city runs that double as exploration or through minimal equipment (such as a jump rope) that packs well and gives you efficient workouts on the road.

Outside of my travels, I am a quantitative researcher. Previously, I worked as a Quantitative UX Researcher at Meta, and I hold a PhD in Psychology from Stanford. In my academic life, I studied how cultural values influence human behavior on social media, using a variety of machine learning, natural language processing, and experimental methods. If you’re curious about the researcher side of me, here are my LinkedIn and Google Scholar Page.

Shoot me a message if you want to chat about travel, minimalist packing, running, or anything in between — I’d love to hear!