Humor Travel Life Diversity Series: Meet Dynasty Huckleby

I am so excited to share the first entry in the Humor Travel Life Diversity Series. This series is about celebrating and featuring travelers of diverse backgrounds. Travel is about experiencing the world, and as we all know, our world is beautiful - and most importantly, diverse! I think it's important to acknowledge and celebrate that in the travel blogging industry. Thank you to my friends and fellow travelers who have agreed to be a part of this, and I look forward to celebrating you and your experiences as travelers.

First up, meet the lovely and awesome Dynasty Huckleby!
Instagram:  @dydoesit

1. Obviously as a travel blogger, you are a citizen of the world, but where is your home base?
I love the phrase “citizen of the world” that definitely represents so much of my aspirations. As far as my home base it is Los Angeles, California.
 
2. How long have you been living there?
I am originally from Detroit, Michigan. From there I moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan for undergrad. After finishing college I moved to LA and have made this my home for 4 years now.
 
3. In addition to travel blogging, are you involved in any other work or social media influencing?
Well that’s always the biggest question for me. I have my hands in quite a bit of pots and I always feel, why not! Along with travel blogging I also have a model event staffing/management company, I am in my last year of my psychotherapy grad program, and I am an actress and writer, which is the main reason I am based out of LA.
 
4. What inspired you to start blogging about travel?
It’s kind of funny but I basically fell into travel blogging. It is the most recent of my things that I focus on and it really just began out of my love for exploration, meeting new people, and wanting to know more about other cultures and customs. I feel as if travel is something that not enough people do and I try to inspire others to experience it because of the impact it has had on my life.
 
5. How many countries have you visited?
As I stated I am still pretty new to the travel world so not as many places as some of my travel role models. But, in the past two years or so I have been to 10 countries, which sounds like a quite a bit in 2 years but somehow I always feel like I could be traveling more.
 
6. What is your favorite travel destination so far?
That’s pretty hard for me to say because I find so much joy in every place I visit. It’s amazing to experience different cultures and discover all of the unique aspects that individualize each place has. I can say the place I keep wanting to go back to and explore more of is Thailand, which happened to be my first overseas journey.
 
7. Least favorite?
 I don’t have a least favorite in regards to destination. I will say that I have discovered that I’d much prefer to be in nature or small towns as opposed to a big city.
 
8. What is the craziest travel story that you have experienced?
Ha, I’m not sure how everyone else defines their crazy travel stories but I’ve had a bunch of experiences that could possibly make the list. First Pattaya, Thailand - enough said. On another occasion I remember being in a small village of norther Thailand, stepping out of a car in a clear space with trees surrounding the clearing. A friend and I get out of the car just hoping to find a monkey. I have a bag of nut for the monkey meeting  and we are so hopeful just to see at least one monkey when we start to hear a rustling of leaves and as we look up there over 100 monkeys swinging from the trees and running straight towards us. Now this plan was not looking like the smartest idea any longer, but as we are immediately consumed with fear the monkeys run full speed straight up to us then stop about foot  away and hold out their hands. This was such an amazing experience to watch all of them interact act trick each other for the nuts while each one would just come up and hold out their hand asking for another. In hindsight I know now to be more careful in regards to dealing with wild animals but after seeing what I saw, I don’t regret a thing.
 
9. Where would you like to travel to next?
Goodness where wouldn’t I? I'm always down for any trip but, honestly feel as though it’s toss up between Ireland, Morocco, or The Philippines. I get inspired by those around me and these destinations seem like they would be right up my alley!
 
10. What’s the best piece of travel advice you’d give to others?
Have no expectations, just be ready for the experience.