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Annabelle Vinois is Belgian, from Brussels, and she links her love of travel to growing up in a country with not nearly enough sunshine for her tastes. She studied law and even worked as a lawyer, though all the while she has been dreaming of traveling and living abroad. She also has a secret obsession with Shakira and Barbara Streisand – just hum a few bars of “Woman in Love” near her and you’ll see…
Dave Meyer is American, from New York, and though from a much larger country than Anna, he’s grown the same bug of wanderlust. Dave studied sociology and even worked in the field, though now he works as a travel and fiction writer. He doesn’t like Shakira much, but put him anywhere near a Law & Order episode and he’ll probably smack you if you distract him… Real Law & Order though, not SVU…
We met in Mongolia. We were on the same plane from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar and we fell in love when, across ten rows of sleeping Mongolians, 35,000 feet above the Gobi desert, we made eye-contact and smiled. After a week or so traveling together (spread out over the period of a month), Anna invited Dave to follow her to Vienna and well, we’ve been bumping around the world ever since, all the while planning “a big trip” somewhere in the future.
Fall 2009 became our official departure date; Africa became our first destination. We spent 16 unbelievable months cycling through twelve countries before deciding to leave our bikes behind and continue on by public transportation. We are currently en route to Rio de Janeiro, hoping to arrive in time for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012.
On the way we’re making short documentary films about grassroots environmental projects. Are we professional filmmakers? No. But we’re not letting that get to us. We’re also visiting cafes and bookstores to show our movies and talk some about the amazing work being done every day to make a better future for us all.
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