1984 - Our first date:
Grant: "What do you want to do with your life?"
Susan: "Travel."
Grant: "I want to go around the world on a motorycle."
Susan: "Why not?"
Three years later, in early 1987, to the dismay of our parents and most
of our friends, we had sold everything, quit our jobs and were heading
for Panama on a motorcycle. It's not a bad way to see the world, (except
when it's raining!)
Since then, when not travelling to remote places by motorcycle, Susan
has consulted to many large organizations, including banks, insurance
companies, airlines and government departments in Canada, Australia, Singapore,
Hong Kong, and the UK, helping them to improve their business processes
through effective use of information technology and to implement organizational
change. She has managed projects, taught courses, co-written magazine
articles and spoken at international conferences and seminars, and most
recently directed the development of a new systems development approach
for the consulting arm of a major software developer.
Susan Johnson resume
At various times, Grant has earned his living as a motorcycle
mechanic and dealer, manager of several sports equipment stores, and as
a freelance photographer and writer. While living in Australia, he wrote
and successfully marketed a software program for photographers, and since
1992 has worked as an independent computer consultant to small and medium
sized businesses from Australia to Tanzania, as well as teaching high-end
computer software (groupware) to large companies in South-East Asia.
Grant Johnson resume
For us, "nomadicity" is a way of life now. Sharif, our guide
in Libya, described us as "modern Bedouins". Since we have no
kids, no pets, and all our possessions fit easily in a storage locker,
that's a pretty accurate description.
While we both love our consulting work, we also love travelling. The
work funds the travelling, and not the kind where you take a two week
package tour to somewhere. When we travel, we have no schedules to keep,
we don't make reservations in advance, we stay as long as we want and
leave when we decide to go. We travel very slowly, as will be obvious
when you see the chronology in the travelogues. We've seen over 50 countries
in the 13 years we've been travelling, but all the travelling just whets
our appetite for more, so it will probably be another 10 years - or more
- before we finish!
Grant at Horizons Unlimited command central, London, UK. Yes, we are Canadians, living in UK.
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