I am Maria Malyk, the author of "Hack Solo Travel: A Practical and Civil Guide to World Adventuring for Badasses on a Budget". I am writing it for financially strapped young American adults (and everyone else who can relate) who want to travel the world but don't quite know how to make it happen. Well, I am a woman of very little means and I've traveled to dozens of countries -- much of it solo -- and I can tell you how to do it too. And while we're at it, I'll give you all sorts of logistical, cultural and self-care pointers that will serve you well on your journeys through different countries and maybe even life in general. 

​

A bit about me. As a child, I came to the United States as a refugee from the Soviet Union, which set me in motion as a lifelong nomad. As a teenager, I was a runaway, which uncorked a lifelong survivor in me. As a young adult / college student, I traveled extensively as a budget backpacker, coming to the realization that movement is life. Now, as an older adult, a writer and a sociologist, I live as a digital nomad, which makes the generalized "abroad" my permanent, yet ever-changing "home". I've become so multi-cultural that when people ask me where I'm from, I say "How much time you got?"

​