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Ever wondered what it’s like to sell it all and go travel the world? – That’s just what we did…

Central Vietnam, us with a gang of villagers whilst on our Easy Riding adventure.…Aaron and Georgie have been traveling the world since April 2008. We sold our house, our car and even our cat so we could go forth and live life to it’s fullest and experience something new everyday. We blog about our travels, our adventures, our love and our life from the road as we go – Mucho Mucho LOVE… Come Join In…

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With amazing support from friends and family we managed to tie up all our loose ends and set off to live the dream…
Our history as travelers before we left on this adventure was limited, Georgie had enjoyed a few family holidays to America, Jamaica and Barcelona but Aaron had only ever left the UK once for Dubai, again on a family holiday, so to say we had no real experience or idea what we were taking on is an understatement!

Obviously we didn’t let our inexperience slow us down, instead it filled us with wonder and excitement. We were very careful when planning our trip not to worry about time frames and schedules what we didn’t want to do was have to leave one place before we were ready just for the sake of seeing another, we wanted time to do and see just what we wanted. Our only plan was to get to Thailand on a one way ticket and the rest would sort itself out… And it did! As I’m sure every traveler discovers, traveling doesn’t answer questions and forfill your appetite to see and understand other cultures and places – it just amplifies it! It drives your desire to see the rest of the world and makes you realise just how small and how big the world really is!

Aaron’s Bio:Aaron Braford: Budget backpacker supreme

For me travel started on a whim, I only ever knew one person who had done it and id never even left the country myself, but, what started as a thought quickly became an obsession. For some reason I focused my attention towards Thailand and with a few months hard work it was looking possible. Meeting Georgie had a lot to do with it too, I know its a cliché but she is such a free spirit that it rubbed off on me, I knew that together we would have the time of our lives… In April 2008 I proposed to Georgie and we left everything we knew behind, bound for Bangkok. I suppose I saw travel as a path less trodden and with such a limited experience of it I had no choice but to embrace it with arms wide open. Travelling has taught me countless lessons about myself, life and other people but above all it has indeed been the time of my life.

Luckily I’m OK with making the compromises all long term travellers have to make – missing loved ones and owning only the things that fit in a backpack. At times it’s hard, but for me it’s infinitely better that sitting on the sofa watching rubbish TV about stuff I really don’t give a shit about.

5 things that inspire me to travel:
- Sunshine, something the UK lacks all too often.
- The Freedom travelling brings.
- Simple pleasures i.e watching sunsets, playing in the rain.
- Other cultures and their people.
- Michael Palin.

My favourite song is Champagne Supanova by Oasis. Favourite movie is Blow. Favourite colour is whatever one I’m looking at. Favourite place is Bamboo Island, Koh Phi Phi in Thailand. I’ve got four tattoos, two piercings, I play guitar, I try to be a photographer and I’m a lover, NOT a fighter. Mucho Mcucho Love… Come Join In.

GeorgieGeorgine Pearson: Budget Travel's First Lady…

For me travel has always been special. When I was younger it was really the only time my Dad and I would get to spend together – uninterrupted by his extremely busy and demanding work life. So naturally, now I’m all grown up travel plays a key role in my life.

I travel for the sense of adventure, the extreme highs and lows – and the sense of purpose it brings me.

Not being able to wait to wake up and start another day is a rare opportunity (and one to be cherished). Travel for me is the key to a happy life and a meaningful existence… What’s not to love?

TAaron & Georgie on top of Gunung Bromo, Indonesiahe whole idea of keeping a travel blog started as a way of staying in touch with friends and family with as little effort as possible, I also wanted to keep a diary and share our pictures and movies. What I didn’t want was to be tied to a computer for our whole trip or feel like a school kid that hasn’t done his homework and needs to stay behind after school to catch up.
I had absolutely no experience of blogging and to be honest I didn’t even fully understand what a blog was but as with the traveling I dove in head first and it all slowly started making sense.

The key for us was that our blog tied in with our other web based accounts like Facebook and Twitter seamlessly and effortlessly and after a lot of trial and error we had things up and running using only a Nokia N95 mobile phone and a Bluetooth keyboard to upload with.

We have since promoted things to a laptop but the core idea is still that of ease and minimal time and effort!

GEAR:

-Nokia N95 8gb
We used to only use our Nokia to blog but we have since upgraded to a MacBook, we still take it along for Geotagging and as a backup.
-Nokia Bluetooth keyboard
This is a very recent addition to our arsenal, it’s amazingly simple to use and it spits out full High Defenition video… Most importantly it’s small.
Far and away the best “compact” camera I’ve ever used, although quite large it’s never failed to take superb pics that rival most DSLR cameras.
-Wordpress Blog and hosting from www.GoDaddy.com
-Picasa Web album account
For all our pictures, we upload everything so we have a backup and can share with anyone who cares.
-Vimeo account
A super slick video sharing site, like Youtube but in my opinion… Better.

And many other free services and web accounts that work secretly in the background. That’s all we have and it’ts more than we need, it could be done with a lot less trust me! But we are trying to  see just how far we can take it,

The key features of our blog are:

  • Huge picture galleries, just in case we loose our camera we have an online copy and also everyone can see every picture we have ever taken.
  • Complete Facebook and Twitter integration. Every post we make and video we upload is send automatically to Facebook and Twitter and our friends are informed instantly.

For help or advice to do the same please don’t hesitate to get in touch and if we are passing through your area we would love to hear from you and maybe we could al go have a drink or two…

MUCHO MUCHO LOVE… COME JOIN IN!