Weebulls Wobble, Diary of a thirty-something divorcee on an RTW gap year

About this blog

After much deliberation, i've decided to set up a blog to document the details of my travel and experiences from a journey that it has taken me 38 years to embark upon.

Mine's a story much like many others, after a settled life in england i wake up one day to find myself divorced, ageing rapidly and disillusioned by my home country and my career. i've always wanted to travel and deeply yearn for new experiences, to meet new people, to experience new cultures and see new places but the opportunity just never came up, or never came up at the right time to be more precise. After feeling a fair amount of self-pity for the situation i found myself in i began to count myself lucky, i'm out of a marriage that i wan't truly happy in and i know that another 40 years of that wasn't what i wanted from life and ultimately it knew it wouldn't have make me happy.

when i told people of my plans to up sticks and travel the world on my own, it was often greeted with 'you're brave going on your own' and 'i couldn't do that' and the response was always 'why?' and 'why not?' one third of travellers are travelling on their own and many are younger girls travelling alone so it's an outlook that i struggle to comprehend. the travelling community is a community in every sense and a damn fine one at that, something i find sadly lacking back in blighty other than the occasions when i go to music festivals. as for travelling alone, i feel it's actually better to travel alone. you are not constrained by other people, you integrate easier and there's seldom a need to compromise which is something that i know i always struggle to swallow ;O

I thought long and hard about whether or not to write this blog and what i want from it, i see travellers all the time tied to their computers and wonder if it's the right thing to do. After all i'm here to see the places right? Well you would think so but travelling is about so much more than that. Yeah sure, it is about the places but it's also about the people you meet, the sights, the sounds, the smells and the trials and the tribulations that you come across, many of which a photo simply will not do them justice.

As i sit here on the porch of the guesthouse in Siem Reap and it's a beautiful day outside in this wonderful little town. i've met many great people and seen so many beautiful places already and the question of whether or not to travel around the world on my own just doesn't need answering any more :D

this blog is written for my own benefit and so that loved ones at home can share my journey but if you just happen to stumble across this blog then you're probably looking at a similar trip. hopefully it will inspire you to do it and at the very least i hope it will show you that a journey like this IS achievable, on your own, and even at our age ;)

a journey of 1000miles begins with just one step!

thanks for looking,