Aloha! Nice to meet you! We’re Chloe and Trey. We’re travel bloggers who love to share our adventures through Asia, Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest.
We started our travel blog, thefroggyadventures.com, in February 2023. This is where we share practical tips and unique destinations to help plan your future travels.
Here’s a little bit more about us:
Meet Chloe
Hi! I’m Chloe an adventure enthusiast and foodie. I grew up in Washington State surrounded by beautiful forests and snow-capped mountains.
My youth consisted of camping in the woods, finding rivers to swim in, trails to hike… hence my love for the wonderful outdoors!
I also spent a lot of time in the city. Where my passion for fashion, music shows, people, and conventions grew.
After graduating high school, it was time for me to leave the nest. I decided on attending University of Hawaii at Manoa.
My plan was to attend UHM for two years but I ended up falling in love with the islands and the culture. Seeming that I’m Japanese and Filipino, Hawaii felt like a natural fit.
After graduating college, I moved back to Seattle where I worked in the fashion industry, which was fun and exciting, but I longed for the warmth of the islands and most importantly, I realized something was missing in my life… that something was TREY!
After reconnecting with Trey, I decided it was time to move back to Hawaii and start a new life. We lived together in Honolulu for 5 years. I worked hard to build my career as a realtor and Trey was working in HVAC… we were on a good path for a comfortable future.
Then bam! One day Trey presented me with an opportunity I couldn’t refuse… which we’ll get to VERY SOON (once you read his about me…)
Overall this opportunity lead us to where we are today. After experiencing the wonders of the world, we decided we wanted our future to look different. A life with more adventure and flexibility. So we started this travel blog to provide helpful travel guides and itineraries based on our real life experiences.
Meet Trey
Hey everyone I’m Trey – engineer, outdoorsman, musician, and blogger… among many other things.
I grew up on the beautiful island of Kauai in Hawaii surrounded by rainforests and coffee fields.
While growing up, I always had a fondness for adventure. I would take every chance I could get to explore the area around my hometown, build clubhouses, and find new bodies of water to go fishing in. My love for exploration brought me to the Boy Scouts, where I rose through the ranks and eventually obtained Eagle Scout.
I’ll be honest, after graduating high school I had no idea what I wanted to do. So I just went to the University of Hawaii and started taking classes.
The natural sciences always interested me so I obtained a Chemistry degree. But I quickly found out that the love for a subject doesn’t always equal a good-paying job – so I went back to school again. After a few more years of studying, I got a Mechanical Engineering degree and started working at an HVAC company.
It wasn’t long before I rekindled my relationship with Chloe and we started dating in 2018 – and we’ve been inseparable ever since.
I worked in the HVAC industry for 6 years until I got fed up with the hustle and bustle of managing projects and going on job sites. Don’t get me wrong – the pay was great, but I was unhappy and always stressed out.
So I decided to quit my job at the end of 2021 to pursue a career in software engineering. I completed a 3-month software engineering boot camp. While in the software boot camp, my HVAC blog started taking off, so I decided to focus on my blog full-time.
The HVAC blog was doing fairly well and was able to support me. I wasn’t making as much as I would working at a “real” job but it got me by. I don’t need much to survive. I asked Chloe if she wanted to take a year-long trip to see the world while I was making all this “magic internet money” (my own words). Neither of us had ever traveled extensively so it was quite a big undertaking. I could support both of our travels from the HVAC blog as long as we stuck to a budget. She thought about it for a while and said why not. I’m not sure how I convinced her but she will do anything to make me happy.
Even though I was well versed in running my HVAC blog, a travel blog was a completely different animal. Photography and writing aren’t something that need to be perfect when you’re writing an article about fixing an Air conditioner – as long as the steps are correct and the point gets across you are good. But when you are writing and taking photos of the 10 best things to do in Cebu, the photos better look epic and have an awesome story to go along with it. I was never the most creative person, but I always knew that with enough time and effort, I put into something, I could come up with a method to make it work.
That brings me to where I am now. Chloe & I started The Froggy Adventures to document our travels around the world!
I love posting our travel photos on Instagram so you can connect with me there: @treyfrog
*Update June 2024*
We are now in our LAST month of travel (we’ve been on the road for 12 months!) and will soon be returning to the USA. Our number one goal is to make this travel blog thing work, so expect a lot more travel guides to come!
*Update 4.26.2025*
It’s been a while since we’ve updated our about me but WOW time is flying. Trey and I have relocated to Seattle, Washington. We’ve been living here since July 2024.
I (Chloe) have picked up a full-time job while Trey works full-time on our blog in hopes to get it monetized enough that we can travel again in 2026. Good news is… we’re getting pretty close! During this time, Trey has been working hard to get 2-3 blog posts out a week which has been very fruitful!
We monetized our blog, got into Mediavine Journey, seen an uptick in our affiliate marketing commissions, and more! Most importantly we’ve increased our monthly sessions from 7K to 38K per month!
We still have a long road to go but hopeful we’ll hit our goal of being able to travel again by 2026.
So a special THANK YOU to all the readers and supporters of our blog. The support means a lot 🙂
