Every year I would visit my family & friends in the UK. This basically became a ritual after I moved back to Cape Town in 2000. Although I had done a bit of traveling during my stay in London, between 1995 & 2000, it was not the same as I did not appreciate it & very much took things for granted. I guess you do when you are young. Now, some may say I have been traveling for quite some time. Well let me tell you, I did not really consider this proper traveling. It felt more like visiting my home away from home. Although I was always excited to spend time with my family & friends, whom I missed very much, but it still did not easy the yearning to see the world & experience different cultures. If I think about it, I have been dreaming about exploring the world from when I was a little girl. While my friends were reading books about teenage romances and such, I was reading about tales of Egyptian mummies, explorers & adventure. So, one may say this desire to explore the world started from a young age. That is basically my backround story in a nutshell.