About us.
I’m James and along with an awesome group of adventurist friends, we make up Beyond Our Day Jobs.
We’ve been going on adventures for a long old time, all across the world. Some last a month or longer, such as sailing across the Atlantic or motorbiking through the Himalayas. Or shorter trips completed in a week or a little weekend. We always try to cram as long a trip as possible into the time the we can get off from our day jobs.
Our adventures are always self planned and self supported. As opposed to a purchased pre-packaged tour from a company. I know that there’s fantastic companies out providing adventures for a price, and I’d bet my mortgage that they’re amazing.
We feel there’s always some added enjoyment to be had from planning our own trips. It may not always feel this way though. For instance, when we had to spend a night sleeping on a mound of gravel outside a Vietnamese petrol station, or while pushing bikes up a near vertical road in 35°C sun. But, afterwards these are hilarious moments to look back on that we wouldn’t have had otherwise. There’s just that added bit of satisfaction from completing something that you’ve planned and completed all by yourself.
During these adventures we’ve compiled paper notebook diaries, film edits and hundreds, if not thousands of photos clogging up our phones and iCloud storage. Looking at these and telling stories to anyone that’ll listen about the trips, there had always been encouraging suggestions to start a blog, that never materialised.
However, for an adventure we somehow we secured a partnership with an international ferry company and as a result it spurred us on to create the blog.
Beyond Our Day Jobs is here to capture and detail the epic adventures that we go on, for people to enjoy. We also aim to shine a light on how to plan, where to go and any tips we’ve picked up along the way for your own adventure. We hope that the adventure recaps are as fun to read as they were to experience.
This blog aim’s to show that anyone can go on adventures, whoever you are and it doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg, or the planet. Therefore, if we inspire just one person or group to go on their own adventure, then we’ll be stoked. So have a read and then get out there adventuring!
Contact us if you have any questions about adventures or suggestions on where we should go next.
We’ll see you out there in big wide world.
18,380
Feet Altitude
Or 5,359 meters is the height of the highest motor able pass in the world, which we motorbiked over in our Himalaya’s trip.
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Flamingos spotted
During our road trip along the Carretera Austral through Patagonia. But don’t worry, there was still plenty of thrills and spills on the trip.
2,957
Nautical Miles
Is the distance we sailed when we crossed the Atlantic Ocean on our sailing catamaran trip.
Our Adventurists
Meet some of the adventurists who feature in our epic trips.
James Barker
Day Job: Yacht Captain
Aspiring dog owner.
Featured in Adventures: Two Guys One Trike, Patagonia Road Trip, Himalayan Motorbiking, TransAtlantic Sail and many more.
Louis Apella
Day Job: Powertrain Engineer
Impossibly heavy for a short guy who cycles so much.
Featured in Adventures: Two Guys One Trike, Patagonia Road Trip, Vietnam motorbiking top-to-bottom and many more.
Lieselot Heynderickx
Day Job: Yacht Captain
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Featured in Adventures: TransAtlantic Sail, Sri Lanka Dreams, Nicaragua Exploration, European Motorhome Madness and many more.
