At a turning point in my life I determined to pause, to explore and mine my travel experiences, writing down the memories. Checking up on the past started me on a whole new adventure; pilgrimage, homage, expeditions and jaunts. Two published travel memoirs later, I am now writing my third.
I acknowledge the Gu-ring-gai, the traditional custodians of the land where I live and write
and pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
The Lion Behind the Anthill
Gill met her soulmate in Zambia in 1972. He was a reckless, optimistic and adorable biologist who matched her thirst for adventure. They set out on an iterant life of work and travel where nothing ever quite went to plan. In Iran they lived an expat life of luxury; in Sudan they survived with no water or electreicity’ they had a fishing business on Lake Kariba in the middle of a war zone,; in Scotland, they farmed rabbits on the remote Galloway peninsula.
Confident they could ride any storm, there was one waiting in the wings that nearly defeated them when Mike was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
The Hong Kong Letters
In the late sixties when the Beatles were top of the charts and Twiggy was hitting the catwalk, Gill embarked on a life-changing journey to Hong Kong. Mao’s revolution was at its height. Vietnam had become America’s longest war with no end in sight. But it was in the offices of an advertising agency where Gill fought her battles.