About crustyadventures
I'm currently doing a bit of armchair travelling through my job as the Community Relations Manager at WorldNomads.com . Wanderlust from behind a desk! Additionally, I'm have a crack at trying to change the world through managing and growing The Footprints Network,
our online philanthropy project that harnesses the collective power of
many
individuals to fund poverty-alleviation projects globally. .
This blog here is about my ongoing adventures.
They
began long, long ago with cries of "I've got to get out of here!". You
know, the kind of drive that sees
many Aussies and Kiwis flung far to every corner of the world. It was a
desire to throw myself in the deep-end of cultures I didn't
understand, to wash off the middle-class familiarity of life in
Australia and the rigamortis of a dull Uni degree. This curiousity
took
me to live and work overseas in Japan, Canada and Europe.
Over
time, the buzz of an itinerant solo life gave way to a new style of
thrill. In a whirlwind of deadlines and adrenaline, I started to carve
out some kind of career in music management and production. As a
child-of-the-eighties I rolled those words around succulently for a
while.... Mmmmm 'career'.
But the travel bug bit again ... and
this time it was for the most remote and deserted reaches of my own
land. We decided to make a complete lap of the Australia from the bumpy
home of an old 4WD (and yep... that solo traveller had become a duo).
And
now, against all my early predictions to the contrary, that duo has
become a trio. And the adventures will continue even if I can't fit
little Jemima Charlie into my backpack next to the pocket knife and the
headtorch. But I feel like every trip I now take will be seen through
her eyes and that childlike wonder at the world will come alive and
sparkle again.
Please
contact me below if you wish to get in touch about this blog, my
travels or my work.
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