Seeing the sights, telling the stories, one spot at at time
‘Jobs fill your pockets. Adventures fill your soul’ (Jaime Lyn Beatty) I don’t know about you, but having a trip or holiday booked helps me countdown the days when I am working. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job (who wouldn’t love 24 years …
“The best feeling is counting down to your next adventure” In this crazy journey of life with its frenetic fast paced cycle of full time work and adulting, it helps to have a light at the end of the tunnel. My ‘light at the …
“The friends you make travelling, are forever locked in your memories.” How true is this statement! I have made some lifelong friends and constant travel companions with people I have met in my travels. A lot of my longer trips have been on group tours …
There’s nothing better than those travel moments when you are completely immersed in a new culture. Travel awakens all the senses, especially your sense of sight as you feast your eyes on new scenery, viewpoints and places. Every now and then you have an experience, …
I love this quote for my current situation. Travel out of my state and overseas is not allowed, so everyone is literally seeing what is around the corner. We are all having “staycations”, trying to discover new and exciting experiences and adventures in our own …
Who would have thought that come early 2020, all roads would lead all of us home again, or at least ground everyone to a halt and keep us sitting still for days, weeks, even months. Oh how we take for granted the ability to jet …
Every time I come back from an overseas trip I feel like my list of places to see just gets longer, not shorter. Three weeks in South Korea and Japan was enough to open my eyes to the size of the countries and I feel …
I just love sunsets, especially with a view or over water. Sunrises too, but I am not a great early morning person. I find that getting up for sunrise is such a gamble, what if I get up early but it’s cloudy? Or the sunrise …
This quote is so true. I am a traveler in a non travelling family. My parents and brother do not find joy in exploring overseas foreign countries, with the exception of New Zealand and perhaps the islands of the Pacific. They are even less excited …
You know that feeling when you feel out of your comfort zone, and doing something seems so daunting that you think you might pass? That thought crossed my mind as I started descending the stairs to the To Sua trench in Western Samoa. The ladder …
I love this quote by Confuscius. It’s a good mantra for travelling, no matter where you go, there you are. It reminds you to be so present in the moment of travel. I love nothing more than taking everything in, sights, smells, experiences. Every smile, …
Lately my lists is looking at a potential trip to NZ South Island with The Artist, a North Coast road trip in January, Maybe a fortnight in Nepal, or Japan, or Taiwan, or South Korea or Sri Lanka….
My job can be all consuming, a lot of my free time is also spent thinking about work and doing things for work. To get a complete physical and mental break I have to travel! I can’t do anything about work whilst exploring some foreign …
Tomorrow I am off again to the USA. A 90 minute flight followed by a 90 minute stop over and then a 14 hour flight. Throw in checking in time, waiting at gates, immigration and collecting baggage means about a 24 hour ‘transiting’ period. I …
