Welcome to The Daily Explorer! I want to thank you personally for visiting this site and hope that you enjoy what you find. I am very fortunate to have assembled one of the best online teams in blog history and am very grateful to my Editor and his team of journalists from around the world for producing The Daily Explorer on my behalf. Please spend a while looking at the Current Issue, or take a look back over the last six years in our Previous Issues. And by all means, let us know what you think and tell us how we can make this site a place where you genuinely feel excited to return to.
Above: Global explorer Ray Martin (centre) with children from a remote hill tribe village in Muang Ngoi, Laos in May 2006. “Having lived in London most of my adult life, I left England in November 2005 to travel, gain more experience of the world and broaden my perspective of our planet. I sold everything – my house, my possessions and my business. If you would like to know more about the circumstances that led me to make this decision, then take a look at Man of a Thousand Days – How it All Began. I was not sure how long this journey of discovery would last – I thought maybe 6-12 months at first. However, I have now been living nomadically for over six years and am still enjoying it as much as I did on day one!”
Choosing to experiment with life, I have decided to live outside of any convention so I can maintain my sense of freedom and mobility and feel unattached about where I am or what I am doing at any given point in time. This will also allow me to experience as many different parts of the world and cultures as possible. Wanting to share my personal journey with fellow nomads and explorers, I recruited one of the foremost online editors, Mozzie Byte, to assemble a team of top class journalists and compile ‘The Daily Explorer’, keeping you up to date with everything that happens as I discover different places. Mozzie and the team love feedback, so please give them your comments as often as you like. You can send an email to him at: mozzie@thedailyexplorer.com
In July 2009, my ”Calling All Angels” global fundraising campaign was launched, to raise money for three very worthy causes. I agreed to undertake a huge personal challenge and trained for six months so that I could run in the 2009 New York Marathon. So far, my campaign has raised over $15,000 and I have done something I thought I might never accomplish, completing the race in just over four hours! If you are new to my site, please take a couple of minutes to watch my video appeal, and then if you feel inspired, please make a donation! By getting involved, you will help me create badly needed funds for some less fortunate people around the world who really could use our support.
After six years of being on the road, I recently realised another one of my dreams and travelled around India. Now I am in Chiang Mai to do a little professional work and some writing. Hopefully, I will be able to capture the essence of my own journey and what I have learnt from it for publication at some stage. Please feel free to email me (ray@thedailyexplorer.com) if there is anything I can do to help you with your travel plans or you are wondering how you could sustain a nomadic lifestyle yourself.
Many Thanks
Ray Martin
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