I am an author and adventurer.
Adventurer by nature, I explore our world, open to experiences and encounters.
Writing about adventure – why we go, what we get from it and what it takes to go anyway.
“Was I a REAL Adventurer?” I wondered.
I swapped my suit and office for the dusty roads of Africa, to cycle alone 14,500 kilometres through 17 countries for 18 months from Dakar, Senegal to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. But I still did not like the toilets.
Join me on this life-changing adventure in an Africa before mobile telephony.
For ten years, I lived in Lagos, Nigeria. I ran a consultancy practice, a social enterprise and was Australia’s Honorary Consul to Lagos and the eighteen southern states of the Nigerian Federation.
It was my dream and it was as big an adventure as any cycle ride.
Join me to experience business on Africa’s wild side – and learn what it takes to get streetwise.
When my then 95 year old mother in Perth, Australia was confined to a wheelchair and needed support for daily living and personal care, my life changed. I left my old UK life to live with her and become her full-time carer.
But my mother was as fed up by the walls of her living room as I was.
What could we do? Travel.
For four years we had multi-day car trips in Western Australia, and flew for adventures in Broome, Sydney, Singapore and to the UK twice!
Over time, I realised this wasn’t just our story.
Many people caring for a frail parent wonder: Can we go anyway?
Learn more about travel at the edge of life at Gwen on the Go.
Whether going for a day trip or a yearlong adventure, the motivation is the same: being fed up with the walls that surround you or being drawn to a new destination and the uncertainty about how it will turn out – or a bit of both.
Do you feel that? I do.
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