This is my on line journal of a year spent stepping outside the established routine of my comfort zone to explore the realm of fresh possibilities along the road less travelled...
I am an Australian artist and engineer, passionate about travel, writing, and photography. I love discovering places that are off the beaten track and people who have the courage to think outside the square. While I grew up in Sri Lanka, I spent 9 years in California and a year teaching English in South Korea before migrating to Australia in 1998. I now share a home with my partner in Hornsby, a northern suburb of Sydney, where we wake up each day to the smells, sounds and sights of the Australian bush. I am inspired by the natural world and by the sense of freedom and adventure in the people I meet while travelling. I have always had a ‘spiritual’ connection to nature and prefer to travel ‘close to the ground’, in order to better connect with the local culture, people and the environment. Having reached Antarctica I have now fulfilled a life-long dream to spend time on every continent. I am now spending time exploring my creative passions and looking for linkages with my career pursuits in water.
"Believe while others are doubting....Plan while others are playing...Study while others are sleeping...Decide while others are delaying...Prepare while others are daydreaming...Begin while others are procrastinating...Work while others are wishing....Save while others are wasting...Smile while others are frowning. Commend while others are cricising...Persist while others are quitting..." William A Ward
"Twenty Years from now you will be more dissappointed by the things that you didn't do, than the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines Sail away from the safe harbour Catch the trade winds in your sails Explore, Dream, Discover"
Ganzi, Botswana
On the Road Less Travelled...
Dreamers of the Day - T. E. Lawrence
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”