Countries experienced: the present to 1988 ( click blue-links for photo galleries ) ; my travel CV / Résumé follows this list.
2008
Working & traveling in South Korea; traveling the Philippines & Hong Kong; living in Gwangyang, South Korea; visiting Bangkok - Wellington, New Zealand - Bangkok; traveling Cambodia, Laos, Thailand; Ghana, Togo, Benin, Togo, Ghana.
2007
Travels in West Africa: Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco; working in Seoul and traveling South Korea; holiday in New Zealand & Bangkok, Thailand.
2006
Working in Seoul, and travelling around South Korea; solo art exhibition in Wellington, NZ; chillin’ while making art in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; visiting Bangkok, Thailand.
2005
Chillin’, living, making art & traveling in Cambodia; travels across Yemen, Oman, UAE; the Trans-Siberian route – overland from Beijing to London by train, stopping and traveling in China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, and England.
2004
Art-creation lifestyle on the coast of Cambodia in Sihanoukville; also making art whist living in a 400-year-old Portuguese church on the Arabian Sea island of Diu, India; chillin’ on Koh Chang island, Thailand.
2003
Xmas in NZ; travels in South America: Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay.
2002
Antarctica; travelling around South America: Argentina, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile; Easter Island, Tahiti; NZ; East Timor.
2001
Working for the United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces in East Timor, travelling & living in different districts every 6 weeks for 2 years; trips to Australia, Singapore, visiting Bangkok – Thailand (x6); travels in Burma; Laos; Sri Lanka.
2000
Working in East Timor for UN; trips to Australia & NZ & Philippines; across Indonesia to East Timor by ship to Darwin.
1999
Drifting around outer Indonesia – Papua, Flores, Alor, West Timor, working in Bali & Jakarta; visit to Singapore; travelling from Penang – Malaysia and across Sumatra and Java, Indonesia.
1998
Working & living in Bahrain & southern England (Bournemouth & Folkestone); travels in Wales, Turkey, Greece.
1997
Down and out in Nelson, NZ; hitch-hiking trips around Southern New Zealand.
1996 -95
Reclused; still traveling in my head – writing my 2nd travel MS/book in Wellington, NZ, while on the dole.
1995 – 94
NZ, Thailand, Cambodia overland to Vietnam, China, Tibet, Nepal, India; then travels in Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Israel, NZ.
1993 – 92
Writing my 1st travel MS/book while on the dole and/or working in Wellington, NZ.
1991 – 1989
Working & enjoying London in summer – to travel the other months: 1991: Hitching the Sahara – overland from London to Lagos: travelling Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Algeria, Morocco, Spain, France. 1991 – 90: Hitching London to India, via Iran, also travelling in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia (Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia), Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium. 1990 – 89: Travelling overland around Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Israel, Palestine.
1989
Working in London; visiting France, Belgium, Holland.
1988
Working in Edinburgh; travelling in Scotland & visiting Amsterdam; arriving in London, England -UK, from New Zealand, at age 21.
Blind beggar with son – Burma (Myanmar)
- HIGHLIGHTS from the road -
- arrested in Kurdistan for 30 hours by the military in Saddam’s Iraq (1989)
- surviving a cyclone that killed 138,000, Bangladesh (1991)
- hitch-hiking the Sahara Desert – north to south, Algeria to Nigeria (1991)
- hitching the Himalayas, across Tibet to Nepal (1994)
- traveling overland – hitching- from England to India, via Iran & Pakistan (1990)
- traveling an overland loop around South America (2002-03)
- visiting Antarctica - by ship, over New Year’s (2003)
- riding the Trans-Siberian route from Beijing to London; drugged, abducted, robbed in Russia (2005)
- traveling West Africa overland, Morocco to Benin ( 2007 – 08 )
- broke & living with political refugees, Lagos, Nigeria (1991)
- chilling with Sadhus, exploring psychedelics at Goa-trance parties, India (1990)
- attending crazy-fun Carnaval; later mugged at knifepoint in Rio, Brazil (2003)
- working for the United Nations Peace Keeping Forces across all regions of East Timor (2000-02)
- xmas in the ancient churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia (1994)
- busted and released in Colombia (2003)
- caught in riots in Jerusalem (1989); India (1990); Bali (1999)
- escaping / illegally leaving Indonesia by fishing boat (1999)
- detained by police in Tibet & China (1994); Algeria & Nigeria (1991)
- thought missing/dead in Peru (2002); Cambodia (2005)
- snorkelling with sealions and penguins in the Galapagos Islands (2003)
- being an active part of a Voodoo ceremony, Togo ( 2008 )
- having solitude, gunfire & silence amid the temples of Angkor, Cambodia (1994)
- staying / partying with a local Hippy-Rasta family, Easter Island (2002)
- voyaging the Niger on a blissful desert river journey to Timbuktu, Mali (2007)
- and more …
Shine on Ahu Tongariki – Easter Island AKA Rapa Nui
the candy trail … crazy world travels – on the road across the planet, since ‘88 www.thecandytrail.com
