GypsyChick Travels…

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Yeah, I’m Canadian. I grew up in the suburbs outside Edmonton, Alberta…Northern Canada where the winters make us tough and puts hair on our chests. That said, I’m just a sweet chica with a brave streak, abandoning my family to their eye rolling and mental calculations of my debt-to-asset ratio (In Case of Emergency). I wave a regretful goodbye simply to greet a tenacious wanderlust that I can never seem to purge. I gently brush off the questions of my sanity, my bank account and my “new plan” and quietly make my move.

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I gave up an intense, ladder climbing, high octane career that I loved to follow my inner nudgings. It was painful, I’m not gonna lie…I had a fantastic life. I loved the money, I loved the lifestyle, I loved the shoes. When my focus shifted I kicked, I cried, I mourned the life that had I worked for…the life I created from scratch. Sweat, blood and tears..triumph, contracts and quotas…all that I was about to abandon. I regretted following the wrong path (which turned out to be the absolute right one). I recited the speeches I would make to the people that said “Walk away from all this? Are you mad?” In response to those unambiguous rants… I rented my house out, sold my car and put the rest in storage. In Oct 08 I got a one way ticket to Thailand and left the rest to serendipity.

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Launch off was in Oct 08 and I’m still going strong, every day leaving me wanting more. I’m an experiential person and I learn best when I bear witness. My personal growth is in direct correlation with my experiences. Thus, this would be the story of my growth through my travels and experience. I believe my entire education has been in my Odyssey.

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My eternally growing interests lie in travel (clearly), connecting through nature, adventure, the environment, literature, world religions, social media, socioeconomics, spirituality, religion, astrology, human rights, Middle Eastern culture, female empowerment, history. I am interested in most things that have to do with humanity and the progress of it. I am interested in things that can help me change the world. I am a powerful woman. Stay tuned…it’s gonna get interesting.