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Who are we?
We are a traveling and exploring duo. I'm a single older mum from Australia, and I have been traveling with my son around the world.
We love to focus on Random Acts of Kindness when we travel.
Anything from feeding the homeless in Hollywood to the beggars on the streets of Bolivia.
In Fiji, we helped clothe a village, gave out walking sticks, toys, books, personal and household items, and food. We also paid school fees and provided necessities for two children whose father had just died, and their mother had left them. Just recently, I got a thank note that they were reunited with their mother, and they never forgot our kindness.
I love to motivate single parents and families to change their lives and to go and follow their dreams. Many single parents have written to me and thanked me for encouraging them to get out of the rat race and to spend time with their children, incorporating travel.
We support ourselves with our savings. We have no income. We are sometimes given money to give out to the poor, but none has ever been kept by us. That is because we love to give!
It is a great way to also educate my son. He learns about food, culture, social skills, language, history, art, geography, budgeting, currency conversion, and so much more.
So we have sold our home, car, most of our possessions, and we have left our old life in Australia behind for now. I also left an executive job and my own small business, having previously also owned several businesses over the years in retail.
We do not have a mapped-out route of where we travel. We talk and work that out as we go.
I guess my first travel experience was as a baby. I can thank my parents for my travel bug. We have six girls in our family, and some of us would pile in a van that my dad had modified, and we had a huge old army tent, and every school holiday they took us on an adventure - somewhere in Australia.
By the time I was 21, I had my first overseas trip. This was to Japan, the UK, Europe, the USA, Canada, and Central America. It lasted a year and involved Contiki, solo traveling, mission travels, and more.
I continued my love of travel and missions through my 20s to many countries overseas - in fact, so many I have lost count.
I then added Thailand (where I learned about a new instant print process) and came back and started an instant print and paper store.
After that, I went on seven trips to Indonesia (actually, I lost count of how many), with an import business and a retail homewares and gift store intertwined.
Travel overseas halted for a while, but I moved to the Hunter Valley and Sydney and continued Australian holidays instead.
After the birth of my son (he had his first holiday at 4 weeks, and his first plane trip at 6 weeks old), I continued trips back and forth to NSW. Holidays became a common thing in Fiji, as it was a safe place to take a small child, so our love for Fiji and the people was birthed.
Each time we went to Fiji, we took loads of things for the poor, thus our desire for Random Acts of Kindness was birthed.
So it was not surprising that it was Explorason's idea to go back to Fiji as the start of our journey and to take a load of toys, books, and clothes to give to the children when we were there.
So thus the journey began in 2012.
Travel for us is not just about seeing. It is about making a difference too.
The more we give, the more we want to give.
It has become our addiction - to put a smile on a face.
To say "we care."
We love: To explore; To experience the new; To never give up; To live life to the full; To meet new people; To give when people least expect it... To do Random Acts of Kindness, as we see and learn, while we travel the world.
We are a traveling and exploring duo. I'm a single older mum from Australia, and I have been traveling with my son around the world.
We love to focus on Random Acts of Kindness when we travel.
Anything from feeding the homeless in Hollywood to the beggars on the streets of Bolivia.
In Fiji, we helped clothe a village, gave out walking sticks, toys, books, personal and household items, and food. We also paid school fees and provided necessities for two children whose father had just died, and their mother had left them. Just recently, I got a thank note that they were reunited with their mother, and they never forgot our kindness.
I love to motivate single parents and families to change their lives and to go and follow their dreams. Many single parents have written to me and thanked me for encouraging them to get out of the rat race and to spend time with their children, incorporating travel.
We support ourselves with our savings. We have no income. We are sometimes given money to give out to the poor, but none has ever been kept by us. That is because we love to give!
It is a great way to also educate my son. He learns about food, culture, social skills, language, history, art, geography, budgeting, currency conversion, and so much more.
So we have sold our home, car, most of our possessions, and we have left our old life in Australia behind for now. I also left an executive job and my own small business, having previously also owned several businesses over the years in retail.
We do not have a mapped-out route of where we travel. We talk and work that out as we go.
I guess my first travel experience was as a baby. I can thank my parents for my travel bug. We have six girls in our family, and some of us would pile in a van that my dad had modified, and we had a huge old army tent, and every school holiday they took us on an adventure - somewhere in Australia.
By the time I was 21, I had my first overseas trip. This was to Japan, the UK, Europe, the USA, Canada, and Central America. It lasted a year and involved Contiki, solo traveling, mission travels, and more.
I continued my love of travel and missions through my 20s to many countries overseas - in fact, so many I have lost count.
I then added Thailand (where I learned about a new instant print process) and came back and started an instant print and paper store.
After that, I went on seven trips to Indonesia (actually, I lost count of how many), with an import business and a retail homewares and gift store intertwined.
Travel overseas halted for a while, but I moved to the Hunter Valley and Sydney and continued Australian holidays instead.
After the birth of my son (he had his first holiday at 4 weeks, and his first plane trip at 6 weeks old), I continued trips back and forth to NSW. Holidays became a common thing in Fiji, as it was a safe place to take a small child, so our love for Fiji and the people was birthed.
Each time we went to Fiji, we took loads of things for the poor, thus our desire for Random Acts of Kindness was birthed.
So it was not surprising that it was Explorason's idea to go back to Fiji as the start of our journey and to take a load of toys, books, and clothes to give to the children when we were there.
So thus the journey began in 2012.
Travel for us is not just about seeing. It is about making a difference too.
The more we give, the more we want to give.
It has become our addiction - to put a smile on a face.
To say "we care."
We love: To explore; To experience the new; To never give up; To live life to the full; To meet new people; To give when people least expect it... To do Random Acts of Kindness, as we see and learn, while we travel the world.
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