Setting the Scene to an epic journey to Australia & New Zealand

In the coming weeks you’ll read of my experiences during an epic trip to Australia and New Zealand several years ago. I’ll try to describe elements of the trip in a raw, unfiltered way so you get to experience my experiences rather than reading a standard travel guide text.

I’d basically had enough of the UK and what seemed like a cybernetic robotic existence. The good old corporate empire was doing its best to completely destroy a successful future that I’d developed and for once in my life I was determined to feel like a person rather than a number. The executioners arrived one bright sunny day to inform several colleagues and myself that we were ‘surplus to requirements’, our efforts over the years had in essence increased the profile of our product which resulted in a ‘sell out’ to another company. I felt like I’d been crapped on from a great height, it was time to disappear and gain control, call it running away, call it what you want, the bubble had burst and I felt like I needed to escape in order to get a grip on my own reality. A friend who had just finished studying and wanted to ‘see the world’ joined me on the trip. Our reasons for going where very different. I suppose looking back that I wanted to shy away from my own existence for a while, to slowly rebuild the confidence that had been stripped from me, my friend on the other hand wanted to ‘live like there was no tomorrow’, one might say a slight recipe for disaster.

The need to travel and re-discover my inner-self was further enhanced by an intense passion for the great outdoors, an adventurous spirit and the need to experience my experiences whenever the time felt right for me. I just wanted a period of my life where I could in essence create my own destiny, break away from the confines of a clockwork standardised existence and slowly regain what i'd lost. It was my time, for 12 months i dictated the rules, I was in control and to be honest, most of the time it was freakin awesome..

The story continues…