06/02/2025
GEORGIA 🇬🇪
The Birthplace of Wine
One of the perks of traveling full-time instead of yearly vacations is that you end up in places you’d never think to visit on vacation. When time is limited, you want a guarantee and you probably want luxury. But when the world is yours, you’ll go anywhere—for the smallest of reasons—without any expectations. And that’s how you end up in Georgia.
Georgia wasn’t the easiest place to navigate. A lot of places don’t take cards, ATMs are hard to find, and no one speaks English. There were at least three separate times I found myself in a bad situation, only to be helped out by locals in ways that seemed like miracles at the time.
I visited both and , each with its own energy. Tbilisi had this underground, Dark Web vibe, while Batumi had 10s walking out of apartment buildings you’d never expect them to be in.
Eastern European women get a bad reputation for valuing money, but when you actually see where they come from, it changes your perspective. They grow up with nothing, in war torn buildings, and at some point, they look in the mirror, realize they’re a 10, and they want more for themselves & their family. And when the only thing you have is your beauty, you use what you have to get what you want. Right or wrong isn’t the point. To each their own. But when you look at it from their perspective, you have to ask: if you’re using the only advantage you have to build a better life as the breadwinner for your family, is that golddiggin’—or goaldiggin’?
The locals who helped me on my journey didn’t have to. I’m a stranger—a tourist, a nobody. Yet sometimes, people who don’t even speak your language become your lifeline. Maybe you exchange contact information after, maybe you don’t. Either way, it leaves a mark big enough to tell the story in an IG caption today.�
Then, one day, you see that same place that left a mark on you, in ruins. Riots, protests, or worse, & you feel it. It’s not your home or your place, but you can’t help but think about the people you met or the places you walked, stopped to take pictures, ate, or had a glass of wine at.
The journey continues….
