"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag

Long-term travel is a conscious lifestyle choice. I choose to see the whole world before I settle down, get a real job, buy a car, buy a home... do all those things that get us stuck in one place. I do all sorts of work to make money, then I travel. Then I repeat. I don't save my money for some future retirement I may not reach; I spend it seeing all those places now. My passions for culture, language, food, writing and photography are all fully satisfied through travel.

I love to explore the world; learning, sharing and helping as I go. Unable to stay in one place for long, I support my adventures through all sorts of work: cooking, bartending, teaching English, writing, personal assistanting...at last count I've worked in twenty-five different professions.

After living in Canada and Australia, I moved to Laos in Jan 2008 because I'd been there for three weeks prior and fell in love. I got a job managing a bar, volunteer work teaching English and I learned Lao. It was the best community I've ever lived in. You can purchase handicrafts I brought back from Laos by visiting http://www.designcenters.com/s-100-laos.aspx . While living in Laos, I visited Cambodia and Vietnam.

In July of that year, I embarked on what I thought would be a short trip with my partner; we ended up riding 1500 miles by bicycle through Thailand and Malaysia to Singapore. We had no training and no guidebook, only a map. It was an awesome adventure.

After running out of money before we could reach Indonesia, my partner and I ended up in Southwest Australia, working as chefs for six months because we'd heard work there was plentiful and paid well. We learned to cook and we saved up a lot of money.

These blogs are stories about my experiences during those travels. I have about two more months of posts before I'm finally up to date.

You can check out more photos at: http://picasaweb.google.com/brittany.bisk. You can purchase photos at http://www.designcenters.com/c-52-photography.aspx or in person at the Designcenters gallery in Worcester, MA, http://www.designcenters.com/t-shows.aspx.aspx .

I welcome all comments and questions. Happy, happy days!


"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore." - Mark Twain

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