Exciting News…. The My Senior Gap Year book is now available in Chinese! Taiwan publisher, Sunflower Media has just recently completed a Chinese version of the My Senior Gap Year book. Unfortunately, the official release will be deferred until the current pandemic passes. In the mean time, both hard copies and a digital version are available for purchase online: Print version click here Digital version click here In addition to the book whetting your appetite ...…[read more]
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Can’t Travel? There is a positive side to Self Isolation…. Who would have expected this. As the pandemic races across the world, never before have we experienced such a crisis like this on a global scale. Who would have thought just days or weeks ago, as we learn of the growing casualties, that even for those of us yet unaffected, the extraordinary impact on lives as we knew it. Such as our freedom of travel ...…[read more]
Travelling across Australia, you get to meet some really interesting characters. That’s what Travis Herrmann and his family discovered as they were making their way home through the outback. One such person they had the pleasure of meeting was on his way to remote Aboriginal communities. In the past corporate sponsors flew him around the world. But then he had a life changing experience. He’s now travelling with one simple purpose… to put a smile ...…[read more]
My father was dumbfounded with our decision. We had just bought a block of land to build our family home in the southern foothills of Adelaide in South Australia. It was a serene blend of living in a near rural bushland setting, yet just twenty minutes from the city centre. Our property adjoined a gorge, untouched by development. A walking track leads through the dense bushland, continuing down the steep descent to reveal a creek ...…[read more]
Happy New Year! It’s a curious phenomena the significance we place on just one moment in time every year. As the clock flips us into the new year, along with it are all our hopes and wishes the year ahead will be so much healthier, wealthier or happier than the year we just struggled through. Now I don’t want to pooh bah the idea of your new year’s resolution, but let’s face it, the reality ...…[read more]
A boat trip from Columbia to Panama was one of the highlights of My Senior Gap Year backpacking adventure around the world. But I didn’t realise the last night of this border crossing boat trip would change my view forever on one of the world’s biggest social issues. Along with the other 21 young people, I was clearly the old man of the group. The last night of the four day crossing was “party night”, ...…[read more]
We have an unprecedented choice of leisure travel options. Flights can rapidly jet us to all kinds of enticing destinations, from glamorous cruises, to resorts and luxury hotels. But as the planes crisscross overhead, there’s something truly unique thirty thousand feet below… The roadie! As empty Nesters, most of us have done our time. Those memorable family holidays. The kids in the back, “are we there yet”, the good times the bad, the laughs along ...…[read more]
It’s certainly not my normal go to event. But through a friend of a friend of a friend they were looking for numbers to attend this once off oratorio opera performance. It was amazing. Maybe not on an international level. But as a community event, impressive. Just watching the young tenor. After accomplishing each feat scaling from high to low, watching him smile, as if a huge sigh of relief he did it. The bass ...…[read more]
Travel Chat Series – Jacque & Mark Hagan Jacque & Mark Hagan have been traveling the world since the 70’s. They kindly share their travel experiences and advice as part of our Travel Chats series. Travel, It really gets in your blood… Jacque & Mark’s travels started back in 1974. Just out of university when the expectation was to put a down payment on a house, they instead did what was known as the Hippie ...…[read more]
Travel Chat Series – Helen MacLeod The next in our series of video Travel Chats is with another worldwide traveler. It was a pleasure to chat with Helen Macleod who shares her travel tips and experiences. Adventurous But Safe Travel… Helen is a very experienced traveler with over 30 overseas trips. She prefers to travel with a few people or by herself. Her first adventurous trip was when she was about 21, travelling ten weeks ...…[read more]