DIRT TRAX |
16 March 1999 |
the drifting johnsons
STORY BY JOHN CAMPBELL...........PHOTOS
BY GRANT JOHNSON
YOU'LL MEET THEM TIME AND AGAIN, the world travellers. They'll seem older yet somehow younger than yourself;
a life intensely lived affects mortality and jumbles time out of sequence. |
examine the progress of their lives, but they accept the risks and the odds against them by being continually
out there on the road. |
chests are covered with stickers from their journeys: Africa, South America, Europe, Antarctic, the Middle East.
"A one-meter wide bridge of five-inch pipe had been hastily thrown down over
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The Johnsons are good examples of how modem technologies can free people
from the traditional confines of the workplace. A guide in Libya described them as modern Bedouins. "Since we have no kids, no pets, and all our possessions fit easily in a storage locker, that's a pretty accurate description." they say. |
...wandering Namibia's deserts But who are the Johnsons? Well, they're actually good examples of how modern technologies can free people from
the traditional confines of the workplace with its desks, and schedules and routines. Susan is a consultant to
many large corporations and helps them to improve their business processes through effective use of information
technology. |
been teaching groupware to large companies in Southeast Asia. They do the majority of their business from a laptop, which frees them to pursue their windblown lifestyle. "The fog was quite thick, but as we approached shore we could see them - tens of thousands of Adelie and Gentoo penguins waiting for us to come." ...coming ashore on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Johnsons have no plans for settling down, not as long as they have the wits and energies to keep their motorcycle
pointed down the road. They've been held up by guerrillas, detoured by floods, fallen sick in strange lands but
they're Travellers, after all, and what they need to survive is not found behind a white picket fence, rather it's
located between their ears and at the bottom of their weather-beaten saddlebags. You can find their website at:
http://www.horizons |
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