Hi, I’m Alyson!
I am a world traveler, an experienced product management professional, cat mom, auntie, partner, friend, and a person who loves to move through the world with curiosity and a taste for adventure.
I originally started this website to document my travels as I set off on what became an 18-month road trip around the United States in 2020. I crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic and from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and back, multiple times. I did it solo, I did while I was working remotely full time, and I did it during a once-in-a-century pandemic! No social media album or even full website could capture all of my incredible experiences on that journey, but this was my best attempt to share what I was doing and seeing with my friends and family across the country.
Now that I am no longer a full time digital nomad I have settled in Providence, RI. I still travel as much as I can, although now I have a permanent home to return to. I’ve also expanded this website to showcase some of my professional accomplishments.
Some fun facts about me:
- Obviously I’m an avid traveler – but did you know I’ve been to:
- 49 US states (guess which one I’m missing!)
- Half of the US National Parks (plus many, many other NPS properties)
- Half of all the ballparks in the MLB
- 17 countries… and counting!
- I’m a certified scuba diver and have been diving in four different countries
- I live in Providence, Rhode Island. This is the fourth US state I’ve called home. I am a native New Englander and East Coast gal down to my bones, so I am happy to be back in the Northeast.
- I am a cat mom to a very chatty tuxedo cat named Clawdine (that’s her to the right!) and a dog stepmom to the big friendly Zuko (you can see him in the collage below!)
- I graduated college in 2009 with six figures of student debt. As of September 2023, I officially paid off the last of my student loans and am now debt free!
- I’m an ordained minister in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- I am an avid birdwatcher. When people find this out about me they always ask what my favorite bird is, but my answer is always “the bird that I’m looking at right now!”
Alyson Gagne 