About My Travels | Marco Grassi Photography

It all started in 2012, right after high school. At the time I wasn’t sure about my future and what to do with my life…

But I was 100% sure I didn’t want to choose some random university I didn’t like and spend the rest of my life doing some job I didn’t like either.

*If you’re going to read the rest of the story let me first introduce you to Jessica, my girlfriend, as she’s the one I’ve been sharing most of my adventures with from the very beginning.*

The idea of spending a gap year somewhere was growing stronger day after day and New Zealand seemed to be the best choice. We left Italy (05/03/2013) with the idea to spend 12 months working and traveling around the country on a working holiday visa with no plans and no experience as it was our first long term travel. Plus, our English wasn’t exactly first lever… Nor second… 😀

After only a few days in the country we bought a 20 year-old van, drove south and spent our first months living in families around New Zealand doing wooffing, learning English and turning our van into a cosy home. Then it was finally time to hit the road, so we started traveling and stopped for work when we needed money.

We have worked very hard for a couple of months, but everything was fine as we had our goal clear in mind and we knew that once on the road again every effort would slip away.

I remember working 19 consecutive hours in Wellington… but that’s another loooong story!

All those working days ensured us enough money to keep traveling around New Zealand and turn our one-day stopover in Thailand into a five weeks trip around the country.

And it’s in Thailand that I’ve truly realized something I had been unconsciously keeping inside me for months: I didn’t want to stop traveling.

As the trip was coming to an end, mindful of all the incredible places seen during this amazing experience, I decided to buy myself a camera and thought that photography could be the vehicle to keep me on the road. Just before leaving Thailand I purchased my first DSLR with the last savings and finally started realizing what I wanted to do with my life.

Today, several countries later and after a round-the-world trip, the adventure goes on and to stop it’s not part of the plan!

Do what you love. So you’ll love what you do.

My travels