Reclaiming My Future

For those of you that have read my story, you’ll know a lot of this already but today is a special day and I wanted to be able to show that whilst you may struggle, things can change for the better, it just takes a little time and determination. We all struggle in life. We [...]

I’m going to go ahead and admit something shocking; I wasn’t that impressed when I first saw Victoria Falls Zambia It’s an amazing place but because I was there in the dry season, it just wasn’t a ‘wow’ place since, instead of the continual sheet of water thundering over the top, there were several smaller [...]

If you ask people where they want to go on their adventures, their answer will be ‘travel the world’ but most people don’t really mean it, I know I don’t and you probably don’t either. In case you haven’t noticed, the world is pretty big. There’s a lot of ground (and sea) to cover and [...]

It was 5am on September 19 2011 when I woke up to visit Chobe National Park. I had no idea that it would become the day that Africa stole my heart. Snuggled up in layers and my sleeping bag, I stepped on to the safari truck and headed into Chobe National Park, one of the [...]

I started to change my life at the weekend…I began sorting through my things so I could see what I wanted to sell for my Australia fund and by the end of my sorting, I said goodbye to someone I will not miss…Old Me.   You see, it’s not that I didn’t like the Old [...]

The Okavango Delta Getting across the Okavango Delta to a sand island is a dream. You pack your bag, sit in a mokoro (dug out canoe) for an hour and relax as you hear nothing but the ripples of the water and the birds singing. Oh and the reeds smacking you in the face; I [...]