Journeys of a Travel Bug

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...

6 December 2009

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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.
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Inspirational Tip

"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

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Explore, Dream Discover - Mark Twain

"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

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.”

Useful Links for a Gap Year

  • Embassies Abroad
  • Agoda - Hotels Worldwide
  • Smart Traveller
  • Travellers' Health
  • World Nomads
  • BootsnAll
  • DFAT
  • Independent Travel
  • Lonely Planet
  • Peregrine Adventures
  • Global Volunteer Network
  • Real Gap Experiences
  • Engineers Without Borders
  • Intrepid Travel
  • Female Nomad
  • Tucan Travel
  • Travel Bug Check List
  • National Geographic

Blog Archive

  • ►  2011 (35)
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  • ►  2010 (203)
    • ►  December (13)
    • ►  November (31)
    • ►  October (14)
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    • ►  August (14)
    • ►  July (20)
    • ►  June (33)
    • ►  May (29)
    • ►  April (17)
    • ►  February (1)
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  • ▼  2009 (3)
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My Blog List

  • Jessicawatson.com.au
    Jessica's Blog Has a New home
    15 years ago

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Books that have Inspired me or made me Think...

  • Brida - Paulo Coelho
  • The Road of Lost Innocence - Somaly Mam
  • Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  • The White Masai - Corinne Hoffman
  • Once while Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story - Tony & Maureen Wheeler
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Steven Covey
  • Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World - Rita Goldman Gelman
  • The Science of Happiness:How Our Brains Make Us Happy - Stefan Klein
  • The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types - Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson
  • The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness - Steven Covey
  • Re-think: How to Think Differently - Nigel May Barlow
  • The Power of NOW: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Ekhart Tolle

Things to Ponder....

  • "Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses." Hannah Arendt
  • "To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult." Plutarch
  • "Creativeness and a creative attitude to life as a whole is not man's right, it is his duty" Nikolai Berdyaev
  • "In a million people there are a thousand thinkers, in a thousand thinkers, there is one self-thinker. " Anon
  • "Give every man your ear but few your voice" William Shakespeare
  • "Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect" Samuel Johnson
  • "'The real magic of discovery lies not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes" Marcel Proust
  • "The essence of the creative act is to see the familiar as strange" Anon
  • "Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought" Anon
  • "Why do we think the opposite of work is leisure, when in fact it is idleness" Ricardo Semler

Books to Read On the Road

  • Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Why Weren't We Told? A personal search about the truth of our history - Henry Reynolds
  • Down Under - Bill Bryson
  • Swahili for the Broken Hearted - Peter Moore
  • Food, Sex and Money - Liz Bryski
  • The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
  • Journey to the Stone Country - Alex Miller
  • The Lovers' Room - Steven Carroll
  • Salvation Crek - Susan Duncan
  • A Woman's World Again - Marybeth Bond
  • The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
  • Back From Africa - Corinne Hoffman