I’m a 26 year old Irish guy who left Ireland at 18 and lived/studied/worked in the USA, Korea, Australia, England and Thailand, currently en route to Africa.

My initial plan after graduating in 2006 with an economics degree was to take a year out, teach English in China, ‘get travel out of my system’ and head back to the UK for a successful lifelong career in finance – well that plan didn’t go so well :S

After seeing what the world has to offer and experiencing things so different to what I was used to I decided that a life in an office, strapped to a desk wasn’t quite for me. So that investment banker that I seemed so destined to become will never be and now I’m on quite a different path! It involves a life strapped to a backpack instead of the desk, a life where I count my successes in the amount of experiences I have instead of the zeros in my bank account, a life where making a difference counts more than making a dollar

I don’t want to waste my youth in the same office everyday so I can tell my friends about my new massive TV only to be distraught 2 months later because they manage to buy an even bigger one. I think there’s more to life (my life anyway) than the corporate cage and I want to get out there, see the world and make a difference

I have travelled around Asia pretty extensively over the last 3 or 4 years and I’m a big believer in getting off the beaten track and truly experiencing the culture of a country. Ironically that method of traveling works out cheaper as you don’t get caught by the tourist traps who sell discounted air-conditioned buses to the next tourist trap!: My journey planned to have no flights but then I got offered a short term teahcing job in Korea and that went arwy so I ended up taking a couple of flights i’m sorry to say..

My Asian journey: Bangladesh –> India –> Nepal (Everest base camp is a sight to behold) –> South Korea (first time I ever sat in an airport and said, where is the cheapest flight to anywhere) –> China –> Vietnam –> Cambodia –> Thailand –> Myanmar –> Malaysia –> Singapore –> Japan –>South Korea (Taught English again-good times) –> the Philippines –> Brunei –> Malaysian & Indonesian Borneo –> Indonesia –> East Timor –> Australia This trip was unbelievable – lasted over a year and I spent less than $5000! Follow my blog as I catch up with my travels and I’ll share my tips ALSO, check out the maps section and you can see where I went exactly, it’s pretty comprehensive.

So I was working in Australia saving for current trip, which I’m now on. I left Oz in on May 4th and have been on the road again since! Check out my plans on the links at the top to see what the future has in store for me

If you need to get in contact with me, facebook is only a click away (also I wanted to show off this new facebook link thing)

Johnny Ward |

~ If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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