Rickshaw Travel Team

Coming from a family of travellers has bred in me the desire to always be on the move. As a child I travelled extensively around Australia to many remote locations and I loved being able to touch on a side of the country that many Australians themselves never get to see. My mother also worked abroad a lot and was always telling me stories about the exotic places she had been. For years I dreamed of the day I could also visit these places.

After I left school, I couldn’t get on a plane fast enough! I used my new found freedom to spend the next five years travelling extensively around the United Kingdom, Europe, Turkey, and Egypt. I’ve now been to over 20 countries and am always looking for the next one to add to my list.

I find the very idea of travel intoxicating and I am thankful that I can now share my experiences with other people as well as have the privilege of helping them with their own adventures.

Since I was young I knew that all I wanted to do was travel, nothing inspired me more than pictures and stories from distant places. After finishing my degree I headed straight overseas to London, which I used as my base for exploring Europe for the next two years. From the UK, my partner and I plus two friends headed to South America, travelling independently down the west coast from Ecuador to Chile, an adventure which would undoubtedly be the highlight of all my travels. Moving next to my partners’ home town of Queenstown, NZ, I started working in a travel agency and my career in the industry began.
Within a couple of years we had itchy feet again, so we dusted off our backpacks and spent the next six months travelling through India (with an unforgettable stop in the Maldives) and South East Asia including Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia before we finally decided to return to my home town of Adelaide to get jobs like normal people. Even though we had settled down for a while, working in the travel industry brought some lovely perks over the next couple of years with two incredible trips to Egypt and South Africa. My love for travel will never fade, but working in the industry is a constant inspiration – I am forever planning the next adventure!