One of the things I love about travelling is meeting other
travellers. There is an understanding
between travellers, which is often hard to find back at home.
I have a lot of family and friends who just don’t get why I
routinely pack up my life and disappear for months to live out of a backpack.
They ask when will I settle down or when I will get a real job and come home. The
answer to their questions is always never.
After a week in Bali with Stuart McDonald the co-founder of Travelfish, between half-climbing
volcanos, learning to surf, getting healed and vexed and a lot of time in the
car navigating on roads that define off
the beaten track, we have exchanged a lot of travellers currency. The currency
of travellers are their stories of bus trips, crazy people, near death
experiences, stomach problems and what generally possesses us to keep doing it.
While we could have swapped tales all day about where we have
been and where we want to go, but Stuart’s job was to help me turn my
travelling into a career as a travel writer. The knowledge, tips, and general
kick up the bum Stuart has given me to start writing is invaluable. If you want to read Stuart’s advice for me,
you can check
it out here.
And then in true
traveller style, you leave for the next destination and disappear. But the joy with
being on the road is travellers might just meet each other on the road again.
