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Interview with Adventurer/Photographer Chris Bray

Chris Bray grew up sailing around the world and then leading world-first cart-hauling expeditions across the arctic before becoming an award-winning Australian Geographic photographer, Lowepro ambassador and Canon’s Australian ambassador for five years. Chris’s work has appeared in National Geographic (along with Australian and Canadian Geographic) as well as TIME Magazine and Discovery Channel. He’sContinueContinue reading “Interview with Adventurer/Photographer Chris Bray”

New Year, New Me?

I try this ‘new year, new me’ bullshit annually…it never works. Already just a few weeks in and all my vows and promises have spiralled out of control once more. Life got in the way. When you watch from your window as billowing smoke comes barreling your way from a bushfire started by fork lighting.ContinueContinue reading “New Year, New Me?”

Being a Grown Up

I have worked hard my whole life, slogged away at it quietly behind closed doors; the junior cert, the leaving cert, my degree, countless unpaid internships, countless shitty part time jobs. All on the basis that once I came out the end of that tunnel, my efforts would be rewarded. I would have the offerContinueContinue reading “Being a Grown Up”

Interview with a Solo Female Hitchhiker

There’s something very appealing about hitchhiking. What’s not to love? It’s free, it’s spontaneous, you will see and experience incredible things and meet people from all walks of life. It is a little reckless however,  and while we love a little recklessness from time to time, its important that anyone who does want to try hitchhikingContinueContinue reading “Interview with a Solo Female Hitchhiker”

“The trouble is you think you have enough time.” – Buddha

Man, real life is tougher than I thought it would be. Trying to make me sit down and stare at a screen for hours a day is fruitless. I will fidget, I will moan, I will become grumpy. I will rebel. I try to get up but society puts its hand on my shoulders andContinueContinue reading ““The trouble is you think you have enough time.” – Buddha”

Cycling Vietnam: Logistics and Kit List.

If anyone is considering doing something similar (Hanoi to Ho Chi Min), here is our route, distance travelled each day and our kit list. If you need any more help or information, feel free to get in touch. Route: Ho Chi Min Highway & A1 Highway Distance: Day 1: 92km – Destination: Hang Tram, maybeContinueContinue reading “Cycling Vietnam: Logistics and Kit List.”

The Big One: Cycling Vietnam

Vietnam is a country of contradictions. A stranger can hold my face between their hands, rub the hair on my arms, braid my blonde locks. Two minutes later another is shoving against me flogging their goods: “Madame smell the coffee, taste the pho, feel the texture, see the colours of the spices, buy from me,ContinueContinue reading “The Big One: Cycling Vietnam”

Cambodia – a brief respite from my life in Vietnam

We stepped foot into Cambodia. Five of us, the original five, all such different people forced together through circumstance and found that we fit together. Three Canadians, one South African and me. The first night we partied hard, free of Vietnam, of work. We were young and reckless once more. In the capital of Cambodia,ContinueContinue reading “Cambodia – a brief respite from my life in Vietnam”

Interview with Adventurer Nick Hancock

“There can be no place more desolate, despairing and awful.” – Lord Kennet (1971) Last summer Nick Hancock landed on an isolated rock in the North Atlantic Ocean in pursuit of two records, the longest solo occupation of Rockall and the longest occupation of Rockall in history, after 45 days in solitude he achieved both,ContinueContinue reading “Interview with Adventurer Nick Hancock”