Boundless Adventures ABN: 36527411836
Boundless Adventures ABN: 36527411836
Hi Friends, Family & Followers thanks for taking the time to learn more about Natalie and myself (Mark) AKA Baldy
My whole life (Baldy) I have felt like I didn't quite fit in, I've never been able to put my finger on it as I always got along with lots of different people from all walks of life...
but...
I've seriously felt just a bit lost...
I have always wanted MORE, I just had no idea how to get it...
Thoughts of winning the lottery or even an unknown rich relative passing away and leaving me everything have been a constant fantasy in my mind for as long as I can remember.
I've blamed everyone for my situation from schooling to my adoption because I wasn't living the life I thought I deserved.
Growing up I never knew what I wanted to be, I struggled with mental health issues and substance abuse. I enjoyed hanging around people who were always getting into trouble as they felt like family.
I left school to start an apprenticeship because I trusted the people around me who told me "get a trade and you will be set for life"
What a crock of shit! I hated that job but i did learn some lessons from it
I changed jobs so many times from so many industries with failed relationship after failed relationship, to be honest, my life seemed pretty pointless
The only thing that kept me going through this whole time was the fact at 18 I found my birth parents, I also found out I was not an only child and had two younger sisters (Candy & Jasmine)
This idea of the family kept me going through a lot of hard times and spending time with them over at the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia where they were located showed me there was more to life
When Natalie (Nat) and I crossed paths again after not seeing each other since high school there was a whirlwind of emotion, I can't explain it but something felt so perfect and for the first time in my life, I was where I was meant to be.
Natalie helped me on a path to becoming the man I always wanted to be, I removed people & temptation from my life, and while this was hard it needed to be done as my old life was not serving me or helping me get where I wanted to be.
I worked my way up in my career starting as a forklift driver, then training coordinator, Team leader, Operations Lead and Production Warehouse Manager.
During this time we have had so many ups & downs from scary health issues with our kids to our health issues.
Natalie and I have both had Cancer Natalie's was Cervical and I had Testicular.
While all these things challenged us and we had massive struggles we fought all of it together and made our relationship stronger.
The whole time together as our family of 5 we tried to travel as much as possible, whether it was to family over the Eyre Peninsula, up to QLD (we loved it there) or around areas in SA camping or staying in Cabins.
These times together are some of my greatest memories. We also brought a large property near Blanchetown in SA so we could ride our dirt bikes & buggies, go hunting, have some animals and generally teach the kids a way of life we knew when we were kids.
Honestly, after doing all this, I thought we would be happy but still, something kept bugging us...
While we were able to do a lot of stuff we spent most of our time working to pay for it all, we both have good jobs and work very hard to be good at what we do.... but all we really wanted to do is have more time to ourselves doing what we love to do...TRAVEL!!!
How do you create more time when you work for a company? especially when you are a senior leader who is responsible for so much???
We have invested so much time and money looking into brick & mortar businesses, but all we found was a shit load more work and less money, but we would at least be spending all our time together. ( & definitely would not be travelling or spending more time with our kids doing things we love)
Then we brought a caravan (MDC Forbes 13+ HYbrid) and our attention turned to travelling as much as we could on long weekends and I started using some of my long service leave and Annual Leave.
What this did for us was really cement the fact that we wanted to be travelling full time because we loved being in our van exploring new places and spending all our time together.
We started noticing on our socials all these families travelling Australia and promoting these businesses that could be taken anywhere, this is what allowed them to break out of working jobs so they could travel... sounded like it was just what we were looking for
So here we are, we invested in an online business that we resonated with, it's been almost 3 years and we have set off to travel full time around Australia. We have a new Caravan (Crusader Excalibur Castle) and have sold our old van (MDC Forbes 13+) only because we wanted more room for our family as we travelled.
We have sold our house and nearly all of our possessions, because we plan on travelling for as long as we can after that we are not sure maybe we will do the same around New Zealand or posiible Asia.
We would love it if you followed our journey online, we hope to show you some amazing places, give you some motivation, or even help you achieve your own journey in the online space
Hope to see you out there Baldy & Nat
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