The Daily Explorer was launched in April 2007 to publish stories about Ray when he began his solo travelling adventures in New Zealand. After spending three months there and covering a total distance of 11,000 kilometres in that time, Ray has continued his exploration across the world visiting London, St Maarten (in the Caribbean), Spain and Morroco, the United States, Bali, Singapore, Nepal, Tibet and Thailand.
The inspiration for The Daily Explorer came from its fore-runner and sister publication, The Daily Lama. This was Ray’s first online travel publication, created with fellow traveller Nikki Ashley, with the first issue being published in December 2005. The Daily Lama hired renowned online Editor Amber Solaire to work with Mozzie Byte and a hand picked team of experienced journalists to compile all of the issues that were published until its demise in March 2007. During the 18 months of the Daily Lama’s life, it was a huge success, attracting over 16,000 visitors who were keen to read about Ray and Nikki’s adventures in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Australia. Many of the issues included video clips and presented a tongue-in-cheek view of life on the road, as well as substantial factual information about all of the places they visited. If you would like to read any of the 37 issues that were published, then take a look in the Daily Lama Archives.
Above: The talented Amber Solaire, co-Editor of The Daily Lama, 2005-7
On 8th August 2008, Ray celebrated a milestone in his personal journey. He had successfully lived nomadically for one thousand consecutive days since he left England on 12th November 2005! Many of you have written to us requesting more information about the circumstances that led to Ray’s decision to swap his conventional life for one of travel, exploration and uncertainty. So, on his 1,000 day anniversary, we interviewed him at length and published his whole truthful story, uncut and straight from the source. For the first time, Ray let us into his personal and private world. He revealed what really happened, reviewing the catalytic events that were taking place in 2003-5 which signified enormous change and described how he responded to them. He helped us join the dots in a seemingly random chain of events that led to the start of the incredible journey he is on and recalls how things curiously unfolded in a way he could never have foreseen. You can read it at: Man of a Thousand Days – How it all Began….
MOZZIE BYTE
