Backyard to Backpack: A solo mum, a six year old and a life-changing adventure

Backyard to Backpack: A solo mum, a six year old and a life-changing adventure

by Evie Farrell
Backyard to Backpack: A solo mum, a six year old and a life-changing adventure

Backyard to Backpack: A solo mum, a six year old and a life-changing adventure

by Evie Farrell

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Overview

When her daughter Emmie was 6 years old, Evie Farrell left her corporate career, sold or donated almost everything she owned, rented out her house and, hand-in-hand with Emmie, began an epic two-and-a-half-year backpacking adventure that would change their lives forever. Evie farewelled a nasty break-up, long hours in a demanding job, a hefty mortgage and snatched hours with her daughter for a new life lived outside the lines, spending every day with Emmie exploring the world beyond the suburbs.
 
They camped on the Great Wall of China, hung in train doorways in Sri Lanka, swam with mantas in Indonesia, donated much-needed blood in Cambodia, spotted wild orangutans and pygmy elephants in Malaysian Borneo, prayed in Buddhist temples in Taiwan and were chased by monkeys everywhere. In their journey toward happiness and self-acceptance, they learnt more about each other and the beautiful world around them than Evie ever expected.
 
Backyard to Backpack is the inspirational true story that will have you asking yourself, what might be if you took a chance, stepped off the path of expectation and created your own adventure?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781911632290
Publisher: Murdoch Books
Publication date: 12/17/2019
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Evie Farrell is a mum from the suburbs who traveled the world with her daughter for two-and-a-half years, building a life of love and adventure. She runs the wildly popular blog and Instagram account Mumpack Travel.

Table of Contents

Prologue 11

Chapter 1 Leaving the path 17

Chapter 2 Our little big adventure 35

Chapter 3 The positive what-ifs 45

Chapter 4 And here we go 53

Chapter 5 Superwomen on a waterfall 71

Chapter 6 Farewell, fungus face 83

Chapter 7 Always more to learn 97

Chapter 8 The Dragon Team 125

Chapter 9 Please don't ride elephants 147

Chapter 10 More spirit-town goodness 169

Chapter 11 A year, already 199

Chapter 12 Nowhere but somewhere 219

Chapter 13 Emmie's choice 231

Chapter 14 Open doors 245

Chapter 15 Here we go again 261

Chapter 16 A lovely zigzag 277

Two peas on an aeroplane 287

Thank you 288

Resources 290

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