Spent most of my 20’s being a travel bum, lucky enough to have a job i could keep coming back to that would take me on and then running a small travel company taking people to North Africa.
7 months overlanding from Portsmouth to Cape Town via West Africa which saddens me as so many of the countries you can no longer easily travel through, East Africa may have the game parks, but West Africa has the most diverse types of people.
Many 5 week trips round Morocco, hiking in Atlas, chilling out on the coast and messing about in the Sahara in our old Land Rover 101.
Travelling through Peru and Bolivia for a few months on public transport, then returning the next year to do Ecuador and Galapagos Islands.
Lastly honeymoon to St. Lucia was fantastic, due to financial constraints we stayed in a little hotel and had to eat out each night, used to see the couples staying a the Sandals and other resorts who hadn’t left the complex all fortnight and were completely aware of any other part of the island at all.