The Yackie World Travellers are hitting the open road. This time they’ve landed in Eugene, Oregon. Here’s a brief profile of the traveling duo.

OWEN BOWLING

AGE: 24
SEX: MALE
NATIONALITY: AUSTRALIAN
DATE OF BIRTH: 20/03/1984
OCCUPATION: PERSONAL TRAINER
INTERESTS: SURFING, SOCCER, TRAVEL, FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY

ABOUT OWEN:

Owen was born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania. At the age of 6, his parents packed the family into a station wagon and roll-up caravan and drove around Australia for 16 months. This early adventure instilled in him the “travel bug” and he has since traveled extensively.

In 2002, Owen traveled to Italy and spent time playing soccer in the semi-professional “Serie D” league.

Owen has spent the past 5 years working as a Personal Trainer in Brisbane Australia.

JAIME KOHLEIS

AGE: 29
SEX: FEMALE
NATIONALITY: AUSTRALIAN
DATE OF BIRTH: 06/12/1978
OCCUPATION: PERSONAL TRAINER
INTERESTS: TRAVEL, RUNNING, WATER SPORTS, FOREIGN LANGUAGE, ANIMAL RIGHTS

ABOUT JAIME:

Jaime was born in Perth, WA and was already traveling before she could talk – moving to New Zealand for the first 9 years of her life.

Moving back to Australia, she focused her talents in the sporting arena. By 18 she was rowing for the Australian Under 22 squad.
This took her to Italy, Greece and Switzerland. This international travel was enough to open her eyes to a bigger world and she has not looked back, having traveled to over 15 countries.

Jaime has also spent the past 3 years working as a Personal Trainer in Brisbane.

How it started:

The Idea began in December 2006.
Springing from the revelation that although fulltime RVing was a style of travel previously exclusive to the retired generation, now it could also be an option for us!
Through much discussion and online research, coupled with a desire to do something different, we discovered that it was not only achievable, but possibly the best way to travel!

Over the next 9 months, whilst each working up to 3 jobs at once, we planned a skeleton of a trip that involved spending 3 months trekking around India, 2 weeks seeing the sights in London, Flying to Canada, Buying an RV in the USA and then driving down to the bottom of Panama and beyond! The possibilities were then expanded with the introduction of the new Canadian Working Holiday Program visa, allowing us to spend up to 2 years in Canada working, thus opening up the doors to Alaska!

Catch up with them and their travels at Yackie World Travellers.