About Kaitlin

ABOUT KAITLIN MILLS

Thanks for visiting Escaping Australia.

My name is Kaitlin Mills and I am writer, sometimes willingly, world traveller, introvert and lifelong escapee.

Writing offers me an escape from Australia even though I am still here. My mission is to keep escaping and offer helpful and detailed advice to any other escapees or on the fence escapees so they too can escape.

 

Escaping Australia.

It’s one of my key goals in life. I started this blog with the sole aim of escaping Australia, helping others to do the same and visiting every country in the world while doing 3 different working holidays before I hit 30.

A pretty high goal but if you aren’t shooting for the stars than your sitting in the gutter.

But its more than just visiting every country in the world and working there, it’s about travelling, about actually getting out of my comfort zone and experiencing the world.

I’m an introverted person by nature and for me, stepping out of my comfort zone is huge, but with my fierce love of the world it gets easier.

 

BACKGROUND

I first escaped in 2004 on a family trip (that wasn’t with the whole family) on a three week whirlwind tour around America, a pop into Canada, the UK and a disastrous day in Paris.

We got back three days before Christmas and by the time I was sitting in the grandparents backyard, drinking champagne, something that I wasn’t even old enough to buy, and didn’t really enjoy in the first place, I wanted to go back.

Three years lapsed as the real world got in the way, but the urge was still there. 2007 finally made an opportunity, and for a month I escaped and headed to China. Culture shock was huge and sitting on the plane going to my first stop over on the way home, I wanted to go back.

My next break into the real world thankfully didn’t take up too much time and in 2008 I spent three months exploring Europe. I almost missed the plane because I really didn’t want to go back to the real world.

 

I can’t say exactly when, but sometime during those travels things changed and I realised that travel isn’t a hobby and I don’t need to live in the real world. I don’t have to spend my time in a place where I only have  two weeks jaunts into the world and am miserable all the time.

That was a strong realisation and it took me to where I am today. A place where I have embraced travel as my lifestyle and centered everything around my next travel adventure.

Life revolves around my next escape and I am going to spend the remaining time before my big 30 seeing every country in the world before the gates close.

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