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Hi! I’m Clare – Im 24 years old, from England and I am a girl with seriously itchy feet.

At the beginning of this year I was living in an attic room in a shared house with 5 other people, working as a personal shopper (not as glamorous as it sounds – believe me) and bored. Terminally bored, at the age of 24. This is something that came as a shock to me – I naively thought that after graduation I would fall into an amazing well paid job and immediately feel satisfied with life, but instead I felt like I was always on hold, perpetually waiting for something to happen that would make me go – ah, there it is. This is where I’m supposed to be.

I had the realisation one sleepless night spent quietly hyperventilating whilst staring at the ceiling in the dark: this is how people get stuck. I was in danger of procrastinating away my twenties, working my ass off to progress in a career I wasn’t particularly interested in based purely on a lack of alternatives.

I don’t want that. I believe that life is too short for regrets. I also believe that you should take any opportunity that comes to you, and if no-one’s giving you an opportunity then you should make your own. There are a thousand ways to live your life, and your twenties are the perfect time to explore your options before the responsibilities of being a ‘grown up’ kick in.

There are primarily three things that I want to do in life – travel, write and take photographs. For me, nothing compares to the feeling of stepping off a plane onto sun baked concrete, or emerging from a dingy bus station blinking into the colours and chaos of a totally alien world. So – job promptly quit, I packed up, moved home and started saving with the aim of setting off on a back packing adventure round the world in March 2013.

This blog will tell the story of my journey, and I hope that by sharing my experiences I can encourage others to get out there, break from the norm and see the world.

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  1. Nomadic Samuel says

    October 11, 2012 at 3:34 am

    Hi Claire! Nice to discover your blog today. Good luck with your new site and travels!

    • Clare says

      October 11, 2012 at 8:12 am

      Hi Samuel! Thank you, your travels and your site are so inspiring.

  2. cezkrol says

    October 18, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    Hey Claire,

    You seem to love travelling and take your blog seriously. Keep it up!

    Good luck and safe travels,
    Cez

    • Clare says

      October 19, 2012 at 8:23 am

      Thanks Cez! 🙂

  3. Sam says

    October 19, 2012 at 9:07 am

    Ah I’m so jealous of you.
    I can’t wait until I can graduate and do exactly what you’re doing right now!
    I definitely want to keep up to date with your happenings.
    I’m used to bloglovin, but how do you follow wordpress blogs?

    http://novellaplace.blogspot.co.nz/

    x

    • Clare says

      October 19, 2012 at 9:45 am

      Hi Sam! Thanks so much, it might seem like a while until you can graduate but if you are passionate about travel just keep working towards it and you will make it happen 🙂 If you have a wordpress account, a follow button should pop up in the top bar and if you don’t it should be in the bottom right corner of my page, there’s also now a follow button on my site so you can just pop your e-mail address in there! I am on bloglovin also, search for thewayfarerdiaries. Love the photos on your blog, you have awesome style! Clare

  4. Ashley Abroad says

    November 8, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    Good luck with your travels! I think I have the exact same goals – travel, write, photograph. All good things!

  5. Jason says

    January 17, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    Hey Clare,

    Your story sounds so familiar with mine. I have a great job but feel so bored with life. I’m trying to change that soon as well.

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