Who am I?
Welcome to Reclaiming My Future…
I’m Toni and I’ll be your host for this morning/afternoon/evening (delete as appropriate). This isn’t a travel or personal blog – it’s a travenal blog (yes, I did just make that up) meaning that I will talk about my adventures and further plans but I’ll talk about all the other stuff in between my journeys.
And when I’m not trying to become an independent travel blogger? I watch movies, paint my nails (it’s become a slight obsession – don’t ask) and read AND write books. Yep, I’m writing a book. It won’t be published for everyone, just me, but it will be a full coffee-table landscape book with dust jacket etc about my foreign adventures; I can’t wait to finish it!
In 2010, after years of letting my dreams lie dormant, I bought a backpack, some stuff to put in it, a plane ticket and off I went to Asia backpacking solo for three months from Tokyo to Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and Bali.
I left home with a broken heart but came back finally knowing myself and my place in the world.
If you want to know my real story and what I had to go through to get myself travelling then read this. Whilst I’m still in the transition of turning this little corner of the internet into my own version of a travel blog with a sprinkle of chocolate sarcasm and some naughty talk, I continue to learn about travelling in its physical and metaphorical meaning.
Over the coming months, I hope that you’ll both join and help me turn this place into the beautiful swan I know it can be as I write about my time in Asia and my very recent African adventure. On August 31 2011 I spent 6 weeks on the road travelling through 7 countries in the continent and not only did it blow my mind but I discovered my true self.
What’s with the blog name you ask? Well if you’re anything like me, you’ve let life get in the way of living it. You’re a student who’s fed up with studying or a worker stuck in the cubicle 5 days a week not knowing what to do with yourself (I’m the latter) and you’re finally beginning to realise that there’s something better out there for you…
That’s when you have to learn to put your past behind you and start reclaiming your future!
As for the rest….stick around my friends; it’s about to get interesting….
