Alter-ego: Travelling Tara

Tara

Characteristics:- independent, adventurous, resourceful, direct, active

Life with Tara:- works as a travel and eco-journalist, expressing her life's passions through her writing and photographic projects. Spends most of her time travelling the world and enjoys both country and city destinations but feels most at home outdoors. Dresses casually in rich, earthy colours, comfortable natural fibres and warm, soft leather. Rides a horse like a cowboy, ice skates like a pro, sails a yacht and can fly her own plane. Returns to a lovely little home in a secluded part of the African wilderness or on an exotic tropical island - with breathtaking views of sea or mountains (or both) - filled with special artifacts collected on her travels. There is a swing and a treehouse in the garden. She loves to nap in a hammock on the veranda, lie on the grass under the stars on warm summer nights, or read and sip wine beside the fireplace on chilly evenings. It's here she gathers her friends and family around her for days and nights filled with love and laughter.

Tara is my Archer Fire Horse personified. Living life fully - in her body and not just her head - the bolder, braver me. She comes to visit occasionally and she leads the life I'd lead - if I were bolder and braver.

Tara's favourite quotations:-

We shall not cease from exploration.

And the end of all our exploring, 

Will be to arrive where we started 

And know the place for the first time. 

T.S. Elliot

The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

Bill Bryson

Embrace the detours.

Kevin Charbonneau

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Miriam Beard

In the past week, as part of our unravelling, we were encouraged to explore our alter-egos... Interesting and fun.

I find that I have several - all a little bit the me I am, or the me I'd like to be. Me, and yet not quite me.

I'll introduce some of the others over the next little while...

[Flickr credits]