Our story
Our story
Following along with The Motoroamers is more than just pressing a like button or subscribing to our lifestyle blogs. For us it’s about connection and feeling like you know us. So, on this page, we share our story as individuals, as a team and how life has changed since our full-time travels.
Firstly, it’s great to have you with us. However you arrive at our travel and lifestyle blog, you are welcome into our fabulous community. We set out on a gap-year of travel in March 2016 and we fell in love with our new lifestyle so much that we turned it into forever; whatever that might look like.
Our journey started in the corporate world two decades ago, where, battling with stress and a strong work ethic, we were both run into the ground trying to run three businesses. Our burn out triggered a much needed change. With some tough decisions, a dose of courage and a bucket load of determination, we let go of our businesses, sold up and moved to Somerset. Despite a near perfect life, we knew our jigsaw was missing a link. It was after a trip to New Zealand that our fate was sealed and a life of full-time travel was conceived.
Since then, our adventures have expanded us, our lives have evolved and, so too has our blog. Focusing on motorhome travel, we have built a reputation for high quality information, valuable resources and a commitment to share our experiences, warts and all.
And it is on that reputation that we have given birth to our new travel and lifestyle blog, where we aim to help you fall in love with travel, guide you to your very own personal and financial freedom and enable you to create the life that you deserve.
Meet Myles
Suave, sophisticated, debonaire… Strangely enough these aren’t the words normally associated with me. I know, I don’t get it either, but at least my fwends fink I’m speshal. ‘A present that just keeps on giving’ says one, ‘An annoying little dwarf’ says another.
I’m a fun loving guy who left school and bumbled my way through the corporate jungle searching for what I was best suited to and never really finding it. As a young adult, I was driven by a desire to create a better life than the one the corporate Matrix served up and through that I’ve been focused on creating freedom and choice; oh and making people laugh! That I have always been good at.
Now finally in my 50’s I’ve found something I am really good at; investing in the stock market and achieving returns that beat the bank. I am now fuelled to inspire others to create their own financial freedom and there’s no stopping me. In amongst all that, Smilie, as I’m better known, has just gotta have fun.
Meet Karen
I am a lover of all things creative and well-being orientated; photography, poetry, book writing and yoga. My path to happiness has been a tricky one, affected by stress-induced depression, thanks to being a people pleaser and perfectionist. After being battered by the corporate world, I have been on a mission to reclaim my happiness and health.
My corporate career was dominated by leadership development, running my own consultancy and life coaching practice for 20 years. In 2012, my burnt-out soul took a leap of faith to leave the safe and lucrative corporate cage and put myself first. Through this I found the space to be me; the creative introvert who had been hidden behind her corporate mask for too long.
Now in my 50’s I am a qualified meditation/yoga teacher and life coach, which I blend with a love for travel writing and authoring personal development books. I am revelling in my new found happiness and fulfilment, so much of which was missing from my corporate hamster wheel. Now, I am inspired to help others find the freedom to be happy, think happy and feel happy; in mind, body and soul.
Meet Karen
I am a lover of all things creative and well-being orientated; photography, poetry, book writing and yoga. My path to happiness has been a tricky one, affected by stress-induced depression, thanks to being a people pleaser and perfectionist. After being battered by the corporate world, I have been on a mission to reclaim my happiness and health.
My corporate career was dominated by leadership development, running my own consultancy and life coaching practice for 20 years. In 2012, my burnt-out soul took a leap of faith to leave the safe and lucrative corporate cage and put myself first. Through this I found the space to be me; the creative introvert who had been hidden behind her corporate mask for too long.
Now in my 50’s I am a qualified meditation/yoga teacher and life coach, which I blend with a love for travel writing and authoring personal development books. I am revelling in my new found happiness and fulfilment, so much of which was missing from my corporate hamster wheel. Now, I am inspired to help others find the freedom to be happy, think happy and feel happy; in mind, body and soul.
Meet the team…The Motoroamers
We have been married since October 1989; We’ve had our ups and downs, yet we are bound by our shared values and an unerring dedication to each other. From Cheltenham to the Isle of Man, Somerset and now the world, together we have found a wanderlust that is fulfilling us individually and as a couple.
Our style of information sharing is shaped around humour and adding value, added with a hard work ethic that continually drives us to develop new ideas. Essentially we are both driven to help people live their best lives whilst we have fun and life-enriching experiences.
Thanks to our travels, we are released from the Rat Race, and have the space to do what we love. And, by a bizarre twist of fate, we have uncovered that we are passionate about the exact same thing; freedom. Whilst travel is in our soul, we are also driven to help people find their own version of happiness, wealth and health.
Managing our full-time nomadic lifestyle?
We are often asked how we live this way; both physically and financially.
Physically
We love each other – that’s a good start and we are both introverts, so we enjoy our introspective work and play.
Financially
Financially, we have set a passive income strategy. So Karen’s book writing creates bi-annual royalties that pays her annual salary. And Myles runs our rental and stock and shares portfolio that is our income and pension provision, both of which are generally passive. There are issues to handle, like a succession of break-ins in two of our rentals, although generally speaking our agents run most things, and we gratefully receive our monthly income.
We are often described as being lucky, on holiday or simply living the dream with a perfect life. We do feel privileged, although we have worked hard to create our freedom, so we have created our own luck. And yes, we are living many people’s dream and this is what inspires us to help others forge a path from dreams to reality. Is our life perfect? Far from it. We are definitely living our best life, yet perfect it is not. We have adversity to handle that takes the form of mechanical, investment and health hiccups. Yet with our comment to a lifestyle coloured by well-being, mindfulness and dedication, these issues are navigated as smoothly as we can make it.
Stress, burn-out, illness, expectation, perfectionism, debt, social compliance and negativity. They were our story and we have unshackled those chains. Are you ready to do the same?
“It’s strange, the more I practise, the luckier I get.”
Arnold Palmer, Golf Champion commenting on his success.
Our blog/vlog and resources
People have long-held the view that blogging whilst travelling full-time can bring you an income. Well perhaps for some this is true. It is not true for us and we have tried. We have decided that we are happy to blog/vlog for the love of it; driven by a need to add real value not make money. So we have created resources, free of charge that are offered with love. And this philosophy has served us well for seven years.
Now as we grow, a new focus has been birthed, where we combine our passion for creating freedom and happiness, and want to share our philosophy with the world. Whether that is for your health, wealth or wanderlust, we want to inspire change, trigger confidence and create a happier space where you can live your best life. So let us be your guides as we show you travel destinations around the world, inspire movement and peace, and a financial freedom that create choices.
Countries we visited
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