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Hometown

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Location now

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Work published

Glimpse Foundation Magazine (part of National Geographic)

Also written theater and film produced in Australia

Currently trying to publish my first travel memoir Shanti Bloody Shanti

Travel philosophy

No matter what I will definitely be somewhere tonight (it could be the gutter of the Hilton).

The best travel plan is to have no plan.

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

- Saint Augustine

Craziest place

Hmmm, too many, so here's the top three,

1) Matse Indian tribe in the Amazon

2) Calcutta in the middle of the Festival of Colours

3) Diving with Minki Whales on the Great Barrier Reef

Bizarre experience

Being initiated with frog poison by the chief of the Matse Indians in the Amazon Jungle at the source of the Amazon River.

Advice

Don't hesitate, don't worry, be a little irresponsible and just go. Take a gap year (or ten) whether you are 18 or 80 and remember my above travel philosophy. If its in your blood, do it, life is too short not too.

Dream destination

A diving safari at Darwin Island, in the Galapagos archipelago.

Traveled before

Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Easter Island Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, Similan Islands, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, Japan, India, Nepal, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Luxemberg, Belgium, Spain, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and the USA.

Going next

Colombia, equator, central America and eventually Africa