Alys Crocker

I did it.
I drove the entire length of Aotearoa — from the bottom of the South Island to the very top of the North — and somehow it brought me back to myself.

2025 is the Year of the Snake — a season of shedding. Halfway through the year, I was asked to choose my word of the year, a word meant to encapsulate it. I chose: Becoming.
But the more I sat with it, the more I realized becoming wasn’t about adding anything new… it was about releasing everything I never truly was.
Shedding the expectations.
Shedding the versions of me I outgrew.
Shedding the layers I once thought I needed to survive.
So that what remained — what always remained — was the part of me that is most WYLDE, most free, most deeply alive.

This sunset at Cape Reinga felt like the culmination of that journey:
a year closing, a birthday beginning, the final day of filming Season 1 of WYLDE, and the last moments of my New Zealand chapter before I step into a new wave of adventures — LA → Canada → Mexico → and then… wherever the road calls next (the next chapter awaits).

I’ve never smiled so much, never felt so proud, never felt so wildly, wildly alive.
What a way to shed.
What a way to become.
What a way to begin again.

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