I LIVED

NINE months ago whilst driving through Borneo listening to the music on my phone, a song came up that I hadn't really listened to before. As I repeatedly kept pressing the next button I gave this song more than the usual five seconds before continuing through my playlist. The intro was intriguing, the song then became captivating. The chiming charm, big drum beats, rhythmic melody, continually cresendoing (yes that's a word, I think) into uptempo chorus lines captured me.

Then I started to really listen to it, its lyrics, its words, its message.

This song alone is the driving force that made me go on my four month adventure, the single inspirational influence that made me see the stupidity of not going rather than going. It is a song about the bigger picture, our lives are to be lived, our expansive world to be explored.

So thank you One Republic, The NATIVE album is definitely a listener.

And thank you to everyone - family and friends from home who supported me. From the bottom of my heart, knowing that you all wanted me to enjoy the world, that it seemed you wanted me to keep going and not come back. To the new found family and friends who shared in the amazingness that was this trip. To the people of the world who showed me how much beauty and good there is in it, and it all takes our part to make it so.

This song is now the anthem to my travels, this song is now the anthem of my life and features as the music to my video re-capping my first stint around the world. And here it is, Chapter 1, or better put, the blurb of what's to come. Hope you enjoy it.