Reflections Camp Story 1. Part

Reflection Camp Story 1. Part

The idea to build a ‘camp’ came to me back in 1996. I had returned from a 14 month motorcycle journey from Los Angeles to Argentina (and back!) and returned to university and my old job. At 27, I was once again confronted with the nagging question: What are you going to do with your life?? I remembered all the camps and pensions that I’d stayed at in Central and South America. Warm climates, hammocks, turquoise seas and I thought that if I had to work, then that was not a bad way to do it. So I decided to open a camp somewhere in the world.

Once again I dropped out of school and this time I headed to Alaska to work in the fishing industry. There I learned that money, in fact, has a value (surprise, surprise!) – I had never worked so hard in my life. I worked on and off for a couple of years and then it was time to move on. The camp idea was still in my head but I needed to travel a bit more before I could settle down in one place. In my travels I had met a few people from the Middle East so I decided to head in that direction. After 5 months in that part of the world I went to Istanbul to teach English. I thought I would stay there for a year or two and then I would be ready to move on to do the camp. And this is more or less what I did.