I believe in travel that is gentle, sustainable and ideally, slow. I like to immerse myself in the places I visit, living with local people and trying to understand what is important to them. I’m fascinated by the impact of our development on nature and how we can find a better balance.

For me, this kind of travel helps me make a small difference in the world as I am able to share my experiences with my community.

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National and international travel has been a way of life, all my life. I was taken on my first overseas trip when I was about four months old and a few years later, my family moved to another country for work. New Zealand is a long way from anywhere else and if you want to enjoy different experiences , you need to make a commitment.

There are many different ways to travel and my preference is for slow travel, often hiking or biking, choosing more budget accommodation with plenty of camping or guesthouses. Where practical I’ll drive or use public transport. It’s this slow style of travel that gives me the best insight into real life in the different regions I visit and contributes the most towards sustainability in tourism.

Solo travel is a wonderful way to travel, for me it’s the best way to meet new people and totally immerse myself in another culture. Having said that, I also love to jump on adventures with other people. It really depends on where I’m going and what I’ll be doing, but I try to strike a healthy balance between the two.

I’m a content creator on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter and sometimes I partner up with trustworthy brands to help them elevate their products and services. From adventure travel consulting to creating original content and running my own channels, I’m always working on something.

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Firstly, never let your fear prevent you from fulfilling your dreams. As a female traveler you may feel it’s necessary to take more precautions than your male counterparts.

Precautions that I take include never sharing my location with anyone other than those I trust implicitly, projecting an air of confidence, getting to my accommodation (pitching the tent) before of dark, remaining sober and simply avoiding certain places. I’ve never had anything dangerous happen to me and I plan to keep it that way.

Not while I am travelling in New Zealand which is a paradise for outdoor adventures. Here, we have no dangerous predators and in fact, before the country was colonised by people, there were only birds and lizards

I am a one person production team and generally, I am the one doing all the filming. The use of a tripod makes all the difference as I’m able to set my camera up and then shift it as necessary.

On occasion, I’ll ask whoever else is around if they can hold the camera and whenever I see another solo traveller, I always offer to hold their camera too so they can get the ultimate selfie.

Risk, return, serendipity, conquering and failure;

Georg Simmel says it so well in “The Adventure”

Adventurer has the gesture of the conqueror

The quick seizure of opportunity

Yet also

The complete self abandonment to the powers and accidents of the world.

Which can delight us, but also in the same breath, destroy us

Trail name: Star