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Little did I know leaving an industry that I thought would propel my whole life into the world of travel would in fact bring me closer to the true meaning and satisfaction of travel and discovery han ever before. Rewind back to when I was 19 years old & blessed with the opportunity to fast track to become a flight attendant for one of the most acclaimed airlines in the world: Air New Zealand. To my stability, routine loving self I thought, ‘perfect, this could be my life’. However, the thought of being confined to a job that, yes; took me all over the South Pacific and has the potential to take me all over the world, it didn’t fulfill me in the ways I thought it would. My cup was only half-full. As selfish as I felt for not feeling satisfied by this immense opportunity to use my language skills and flourish by just being my friendly self; it wasn’t enough. A change; a disruption to the flight plan needed to occur in order for me to really get ‘back on track’. fast forward to almost a decade later (I’ll turn 28 in April this year), I’m expecting my first child any day now and I’ve led a life of intrepid travel and discovery all over the world and found my soulmate in the land of my mother’s heritage: Italy and I couldn’t be happier with the way life has and is continuing to turn out. Even though it was scary to let go of the stable income of being a hostess and having opportunities waved in my face to go higher up the proverbial flight plan...of the airline industry I just knew there was more. Thank goodness, I got pushed to go. To spread my own wings and fly to places I never thought I’d go, on my own, figuring it out as I went along. Making mistakes and learning from them. Being encouraged by my family (which I can only hope to do to my son who we want to show the world to). It all began with finding myself rooming with an actor of a world-renowned theater troupe in Quebec City just so I could sit in on their creative process, to helping friends move from Santa Monica to Malibu and then hopping on a plane to find myself at Edinburgh Fridge Festival, working as a chef and seeing 3 shows a day! To getting to experience the island of my mother’s roots; Sicily and falling deeply in love with it. And this was only the beginning... Ultimately I would be led to the man of my dreams in a small town in the Italian Alps where we both had the same Summer job of teaching English to kids and it would not have happened if I didn’t turn my back on comfort and rested assurance in knowing I could pay my bills and live in Auckland to have the opportunity to fly every day to an exotic Pacific Island or the country where I was born; Australia, just to drop off passengers turn around and come home, or stay in a generic hotel by a generic airport, day in & day out. This is not to say I’m incredibly grateful for my time there and the lessons and people that helped shape who I am today but the various corners of the earth I’ve been too in these last 8 years and the life being created in me that I can encourage to follow his dreams is more than I could have ever dreamed of. It took courage and not retreating to a place of fear and thus false idea of comfort but to take a jump; falling out of the plane taking me on a journey I wasn’t enthused about and instead rocking my world and allowing myself to release the parachute and surrender to wherever the wind took me. Thankful to this crazy thing called life and the unknowns around everything beautiful corner of this crazy world we get to share.