A. Perez Voyages

18/01/2025

Two years ago my beloved project “Living Like A Palauan” was published 🇵🇼 (see link in comments🔗)

18/01/2025

Dear voyagers out of Fagasa, I'm seeking permission to get some B-Roll / few clips of the Fealofani Samoa ll 🐬 fautasi sadly destroyed by the tsunami of 2009.

I have ideas to incorporate shots of it into my "documentary" I'm currently working on that would be interwoven into fautasi as well as a short bit on the tsunami, through storytelling.

Pls dm me if thats you or can pass me onto the right person :)

18/01/2025

I want to take the time and thank everyone for the love & support in my latest milestone & endeavor of making One Ocean, One People non-profit official! 🌊⛵️🌊

This milestone and new chapter might have been created, ignited and elevated by me and my passions in the pacific. But this was just as communal by the support from every one in realizing the greater impact of my voyaging in these sea of islands!

I have lots of work to do to ensure this engine is running smoothly but it’s amazing to know that that doubt I had of a challenging voyage from here to Palau, doesn’t weight heavily on my mind anymore. There is literally no reason this voyage will fail or fall short as an organization rooted in passion storytelling!

As quoted from Deadpool and Wolverine that hilariously keeps me going, “Let’s f***ing go!”!

17/01/2025

Man, 2025 is an insane year so far of big moves….🇦🇸American Samoa “documentary” Dual Intro at 5 Minute Runtime 🎞️🧑🏻‍💻

Trying to keep up with updates on this so everyone is in the loop with what working really hard on 🧑🏻‍💻☕️

At the time of this post, I’m slightly ahead of this runtime but wanted to acknowledge the amount of hard work the intro to this was and oddly parallels my intro for Living Like A Hawaiian 🌺 and the timing one year ago.

Both intros have an outer and inner intro. The outer intro symbolizing more of a spiritual sequence that for LLAH, came full circle at the end. And the inner symbolizing the true inward journey into American Samoa and it’s people. Stay with me…🤓

For American Samoa, the outer intro is a spiritual sequence opening up at SAUA, Manu’a, The easternmost point of Samoa (technically Muliava I think 😅) before visually narrating my long 20 year journey to American Samoa.

And the point of this sequence is to tie in through character building and spiritual storytelling that will come full circle at the midway point and especially at the end.

The inner intro opens is a visual representation of my 20 year long journey and resilience in coming here which in my thoughts, I have done my own journey cinematic justice. This is done before opening up to the real story and journey through the people and all they’ve shared with me.

It’s so hard not telling details as to keep things hush hush til I release it 😂😵‍💫

Overall, It’s a very deep and overall personal visual experience which is the reason why i want to publish this project before I move onward around the pacific. Because it took a lot of my heart to get here and a so much of my heart has been impacted since I’ve been here. And funny note, much of which has been effortless by allowing the voyage to flow on its own.

In the end, it’s still telling a story from the Samoan lens yet appreciated from my own spiritual journey through what “I’ve been blessed to see”, also one of my voiceovers in the project.

Yea, the story will eventually tell itself as yet another One Ocean, One People project☺️

🚨I will share in another post but as I build my non profit im seeking any and all potential sponsors and donors to help build this story. I have a short list of additional local businesses and organization that may be interested in supporting this mission. Alongside other stories I’ve been trying to work on that’s still interconnected. Pls dm me 💙

Thank you all for the support 🥰 and stay posted for more updates 🫶🏼

16/01/2025

Voyaging as an institution, changes EVERYTHING.

It brings me nothing but the joy from the depths of my voyager heart, that I alongside One Ocean, One People have officially become a Non-profit.

I’m so exhausted from the efforts of this journey alone that all I can think of is a rewind…so here we go.

It’s May 2023 at the Micronesia Festival in Honolulu & was blessed to see familiar cultural elements in where ive been : Kiribati, Marshall Is., & Palau. But new cultures I intend to visit: Micronesia, CNMI, Guam. A short montage edit I did in celebrating a united Micronesia while also linking experiences in Polynesia pushing me to stop using -NESIA. With a glitch effect added to the three -nesias, birthed for the first time…”One Ocean, One People”.

One Ocean, One People has been acknowledged in various tiktoks & reels over the course of the next 9 months. Until I published my first documentary Living Like A Hawaiian ironically right before planning my second extensive voyage around the Moana.

Time and time again I’ve applied to grants and potential funders and gracefully have been rejected a number of times. And though few have recommended establishing a non-profit, it just seemed like too much of a burden.

6 months into my first stop, American Samoa…I realize my inward journey and work is so much deeper and beyond what I as one person can handle. I need help with translations, camera work, animations, historic footage, RESOURCES. Setting up a non profit wasn’t just a great idea. If was going to continue this course of immersive storytelling, I NEEDED a non-profit.

It’s been 6 months since I made the first step in drafting up my articles and considering my initial board members. I failed, many times. And yes, considered giving up too!

But what matters now is, it’s done! And the possibilities for these beautiful visions spanning across the stretches of the Pacific, can better come to life. To sponsorships and donations both from big fish to local communities. Even fundraising and awareness into the communities that take me in. All rooted in storytelling.

Again, I am tired. But now I know that as the winds and stars carry my sail forward….WE… are truly on the right course!

16/01/2025

Friends of Tutuila and especially of Aooloau & Aasu. I'm seeking insight on taking a hike down to Aasu Bay (Massacre Bay) sometime soon and want to ensure should I go, im not venturing or parking on someones land 😅🥹

Any advice and feedback is always appreciate to ensure mindful voyaging throughout

16/01/2025

Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands 🇲🇭
(Voyage throwback 2018)

It's December 2018, and im a few hundred dollars away from literally running clean of my Pacific budget. It's been 3.5 months since the voyage began from Tonga and in a bind on wanting to visit an outer island on literal pennies. You have a flight back to Honolulu paid with airmiles and time is short also. The dash-8 to the chosen island of Jaluit is out of service and other islands are out of budget. One way flight and boat back to Majuro, too risky.

So I chose to catch a boat to the nearest island of Arno, the perfect choices despite my crossroads, minus the roads but allows for me some sort of outer island experience. Arriving in Arno was all the slow pace I anticipated and more with only one main goal before starting a life anew in Hawai’i, R & R!!!

I ended up staying with a Kosraen and his Marshallese wife with two kids in there quiert little home while I spent many mornings, afternoons and sunsets kicking it on the beach truly resting. I did get invited into a 1st birthday party as well as caught a glimpse of the infamous copra work near the house. A bike ride to the western end of the island as well as a looooong truck ride to the island eastern most point at least not seperated by water.

Atoll life is so simple and it's this throwback that makes me excited for that life in Tokelau, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Marshalls x 2, Micronesia and beyond.

I am a bit late to throwback sharing but "timeless voyages", as I love to say. :)

Check out the vlog I shared in 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fde9IbI9xVg&ab_channel=A.PerezVoyages , with drone shots thanks to .

15/01/2025

My lord, 2025 is manifesting on steroids and only 15 days in!!!

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15/01/2025

Did you know that even with my 8 years voyaging the Pacific , I’ve never watched Moana?🙈

Well that changed last night as the local movie theatre brought it back to the big screen and it just felt like it was time and man, yes I teared several times (especially after in shown in the below video.)

What can I say other than, gratitude and feeling honored to have been a guest and to what most call, an adopted islander in these beautiful 8 years of slow travel around island communities. Moana 2 beautifully portrayed many cultures I'm familiar with in travel inward as well as some elements in bound to explore real soon. Namely Upolu & Savaii and especially Tokelau.

While this movie is centered around Far Oceanic cultures such as Samoan, Tokelauan, Māori and I think Cook Islands or Rapa Nui, I loved to see what I think was those from the Melanesian islands at the end. And let me not start with the Lapita people reference in the beginning.

As I said in the video, I’m deeply honored to be voyaging and immersing in storytelling in these islands. And each community I become a part of only draws me in more and more. Because i see more and more how connected it all is! ⛵️🌊

Now time to watch the first one ;)

15/01/2025

Thank you Iosefa Su’a, Neta, Reverend Tumuatasi Malepeai, and my dear friend Shanica for working together through time and effort to help me bring down some additional necessities for my gear and some replacements. In this case a second battery for long shoots and an underwater camera since my previous two GoPros exploded both in 2024

This is the fourth time I was in need of “mule”ing necessities down and still without words of gratitude at the blessings willing to help me these past 5 months.

If anyone wonders why I’m “mule”ing? I still have ptsd waiting 6 months for my laptop with USPS 🤣

14/01/2025

7.16.24 : Majestic Ta'u during Manu'a Flag Day

14/01/2025

Monday BLUEs, with a bit of red 🚌☺️

13/01/2025

VOICES OF THE PACIFIC, is intended to be and WILL BE, a series and podcast of timeless stories across the Moana, what we know as the Pacific islands. The point of this series was to further expand on stories that have yet to be shared that I've been blessed to be immersed in and learn from.

Over 30 interviews across Hawai’i, Palau, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and American Samoa, below are portraits of the voices that will be heard in this series. Be it a cinematic short on youtube and instagram, visual snippet from a podcast episode, or the entire interview on the new podcast.

So kickstarting 2025 with a bang, even if it's behind a computer. Alongside a documentary in the works and this vlog, is taking the leap into VOICES OF THE PACIFIC.

"My visions are getting bigger and bigger, and my capabilities getting smaller and smaller", I chuckled in last weeks vlog on my reasons of being in American Samoa for a year.

Despite still wrapping my head around this series, I went with my gut and getting the sparks ready.

I will further expand on my concerns of a posting schedule and how it will be tough with my current voyage. But it's actually quite simple, they are timeless stories with timeless knowledge that whether i post them now, 5 months from now, or in a year...the stories carry weight worth sharing...period. Be it stories from previous island voyages or this current voyage.

This series will be a lot of hard work with how I see it coming to life, but I know it will be worth the efforts. After all, I already put in tons of work to capture these stories. This is just seeing them through for them to be fully shared!

At the time I am writing this, I am juggling my new non-profit journey with One Ocean, One People, American Samoa documentary, and this series. So before I begin voyaging again, I want to ensure that these are at least established and the documentary completed. This way, I am all set for the onward voyage ahead.

:) Stay tuned voyagers

12/01/2025

One year ago I finally took the leap into the next chapter of Oceania voyaging. With some sort of a plan, but going entirely into the unknown of what was to come. 🌊

And despite being in just one place for longer than anticipated, that one place molded me even more for what’s to come ahead! 🇦🇸⛵️🌊

12/01/2025

Infamous Nuuuli Falls 💧 & I can't believe I've never posted this from my very FIRST WEEK in American Samoa.

Goes to remind me, how I share my voyages THEN vs NOW has evolved so much since arriving in the territory nearly a year ago.

10/01/2025

This storm system is seriously no joke. Stay safe y’all! If only Southern California could have this rain 😕

10/01/2025

Where are we? :)

09/01/2025

Voices of the Pacific has it's own Instagram page while I begin that series of Pacific storytelling behind the scenes...
https://www.instagram.com/voicespacific/ (More updates below.)

7 months in the making and with the fire spirit of a fresh new year despite still trying to navigate the challenges of this whole concept, i went for it.

Tat's what voyaging is all about right, taking the leap forward into what lies ahead. Trusting your instincts, trusting the elements, and trusting that all will work itself out, even if it doesn't...it actually does in the end. Idk if that makes sense but does to me.

"Voices of the Pacific" once again is in short, a side initiative and means to expand on stories through interviews that never make it to large scale projects to share with the world. This will be evenly spread across Youtube via short films/shorts, Instagram snippets and the same shorts, as well as a new voyage into podcasting.

Ill break it down more in a separate post as I navigate ideas that fulfill this vision while staying healthy to the voyage Im currently on :)

Stay tuned :D