Hello adventurous people, nice to meet you!

My name is Rolien, I am 41 and i live more in Thailand than in Amsterdam..

Most of my life I’ve been moving around, in Holland and abroad. When I was 10 we lived on Aruba and since I have finished high school/vwo I’ ve been living in many places, most on islands. In Mexico, Spain, Thailand, Honduras etc. Always coming back to Amsterdam for the summer, for longer or shorter periods.

When I started working I always wanted to be location independent. I have worked in many jobs like Diving instructor, Black jack dealer on a cruise ship, Tour manager for artists, Tour leader for Dutch holiday groups etc.

After that I set up a sailing Charter business in Thailand (mainly marketing and) and got into Photography in different ways. Currently I’m working on developing team building courses Portrait Photography. At this point I am mostly working on the design of the exercises.

But most important is the writing of my book. I am now working on bringing my life to the next level, making a story out of it. Although I’m not interested in telling my story as a ‘look what I all did’ at all. I am looking for the whole and how to go further from there. My ideal would be to give lectures or training.

Since a while, I am writing a book about the psychology of travel, what it does to people to live a nomadic life. But I need help and inspiration from travelers and psychologists . How to do proper analysis/onderzoek? Do you know a psychologist who could help to push me in a way? Or do you want to fill in a questionnaire about this subject?

A few weeks ago I have started a fan site on Facebook Poink-World, to do what I like, give information about things that interest me, get feedback and to network.

Do you have ideas? Please let me know!

Thanks, Rolien