Ohnmar and Damien
O and D
Ohnmar and Damien
I'm Australian with Burmese heritage and I spent a year travelling with my boyfriend in 03/04 after university, it was the most amazing year, I learnt so much about myself, we learnt so much about each other, there were critical moments during our travels were it was make or break, but we made it. It’s safe to say that we were well and truly infected by the travel bug.
5 years later we are doing it again, this time as husband and wife. However, the trade-off seems much greater this time. We sold my husbands successful business and I left my well paying job, our homes have now become investment properties and despite what people may think we truly believe that if you want to do something there is always a way it can be done. Just because you are married with a mortgage doesn't mean you can't live your dreams to travel the world. We admire anyone who can release themselves from the everyday and take the first steps to self-discovery, to immerse themselves in different cultures and just travel the world. I don't believe we have pressed the 'pause button' on our lives, instead we are now living our lives and the best thing is when we do decide to go home, we have a clean slate and a new beginning to look forward to.
Our last trip was for a year 2003 - 2004, we worked 6 months at a ski resort in Mt. Tremblant, Quebec, Canada, then travelled around Eastern Canada to New York City. From North America we made our way to Europe. London was our first stop, we worked, lived and played in London for 3 months and then did a Bus-About tour around Italy, The Greek Islands & Spain. We also did a few side trips to to Paris to visit Damien's family as well as to the Ardeche in the South of France and a Backpacker tour to Pamplona, Spain for the running of the bulls festival. On our way back to Australia we relaxed on the islands of Thailand, which was definately one of my favourite parts of the trip.
It's 2010 now and we have spent the last 8 months working in Banff, Alberta Canada. From here we are going to play it by ear, we have plans to do an epic road trip around the United States, another winter season in Whistler, then we plan to travel South America before heading back to Europe to explore countries like Croatia, Turkey, Jordan and Portugal as well as back to some of our favourite places to visit friends and family.
I see my path but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. - Rosalia de Castro
