Hi! I am Wren

Travel writer, slow walker, collector of quiet places.

Wren Aldana smiling in a red top, portrait

Welcome

Welcome to my travel blog. Follow me on my adventure to world discovery.

I started Lantern Trails with a one-way train ticket and a notebook that was far too small. Eight years later the notebook habit stuck: I travel slowly, stay longer than planned, and write about the places that reward patience.

Here you will find seaside walks, mountain huts, old-town mornings and practical field notes — every story walked, swum or ridden before it is written.

Wren Aldana

8Years on the road

41Countries wandered

190+Stories published

How I travel

Slowly, lightly, curiously

I plan around seasons, not sights. One base at a time, markets before museums, and always the coastal path over the shuttle bus when there is a choice.

Most Lantern Trails stories come from stays of two weeks or more — long enough to learn the baker's name and find the swimming spot the postcards missed.

Explore destinations

Wooden boat gliding over a green mountain lake

A hiker with a backpack on a rocky summit above the clouds

Work with me

Notes, guides & small goods

Alongside the journal I publish slow-travel city guides, sell fine-art prints from the archive, and share the photo presets behind every story's look.

For press trips, writing commissions or wholesale print orders, write any time — I answer every letter myself.

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Walk with me, monthly

One letter a month — new stories, packing notes and quiet places.