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Heya Alastair, thanks for doing this AMA.

Just a little over a year ago, I had quit my job and gone off on a motorcycle adventure in the USA with hopes to travel abroad. Unfortunately it's somewhat curtailed at the moment due to an injury, but I'm hoping to step back into it shortly. I concur with your statements made below for anyone on the fence about it; adventuring it completely worth it. Do it.

A few questions pop into mind:

  1. Do you feel that the democratization of stories and photography through the internet is adding a delude to the public that is watering down opportunities to make a living from adventuring and storytelling?

  2. When you're evaluating a story to tell, does the adventure come first and find the story within, or does the general premise of the story come first and find how to turn it more adventurous?

  3. How do you balance your personal life against doing "full time adventure". It seems as though if one is gone from "home" for half to many years at a stretch, it would be hard to keep a healthy stable relationship.

  4. Do you find that not having a degree in journalism hinders your ability to shop stories around? How best find to work around this?