"Life is Short and the World is Wide"
BrittBisk
"Life is Short and the World is Wide"
"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag
"Life is short and the world is wide" so we better make the best of it. I support doing what makes your heart happy while helping to make other people's hearts happier. For me, that means exploring the world and taking chances, investing myself in the places and activities that fascinate and thrill me.
While travelling I learn, share and help as I go. I supported 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. My passions for culture, language, food, writing and photography are all fully satisfied through travel.
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 with the place. I got a job managing a bar and volunteer work teaching English. It was the best community I've ever lived in. I learned everything about Lao food by watching and eating. 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. We ate every type of food off the streets and I fell deeply in love with SE Asian food. After running out of money before we could reach Indonesia, we ended up in Southwest Australia, working as chefs because we'd heard work there was plentiful and paid well. We worked really hard and we saved up a lot of money.
These blogs tell stories about my adventures. I am now back in the US, living in Denver, starting my own business doing what I found through my travels and many professions to love the most, cooking, while making money to help others worldwide.
You can check out more photos at: http://picasaweb.google.com/brittany.bisk. You can purchase photos at the Designcenters gallery in Worcester, MA, http://www.designcenters.com/t-shows.aspx.aspx .
I welcome all comments and questions at brittbisk@hotmail.com.
Happy, happy days!
"If there's anything half as much fun as being alive I'd like to know what it is."