Introduction

Hello.

I’m ‘Eggers’ from the title. My friend Sarah (‘Sarah’ from the title) calls me that, and while I would like to get back at her by calling her ‘Jaban’ I suspect that her friends at home already do that so the joke’s been somewhat taken.

Anyways. This blog is going to be about the two of us going to Hawaii.

Only about a month ago, Sarah messaged me saying that she wanted to travel for a bit, both of us having just graduated, and whether I wanted to join her. Basically we'd be working on farms for people in exchange for free accommodation and food which sounded like a fair set-up for me, and because I had a bit of money at the time and no further plans, I thought I’d be a fool not to go.

I still cannot believe it is actually happening.

Now, on the purpose of this blog. I’ve been trying to keep travel journals on family vacations and trips with friends ever since I was very young, and I think it is an invaluable souvenir to take from a journey. Normally I would write down the happenings of each day into my sketchbook alongside illustrations of varying quality of what I was describing. For this trip, I wanted to take a slightly different approach. Instead of somewhat cartoonishly drawing myself and my fellow travellers from memory and not very accurately, I want to largely do actual reportage, depicting the people and places around me from my point of view, as well as imaginative and experimental interpretations of things (the mythology lover in me is already itching to draw some volcano goddesses). I hope that this will bring a new quality to my travel drawings and I think that, when not in Maidstone under the inspecting eyes of certain infamous tutors, reportage can actually be fun.

So. I hope you enjoy these snippets from our adventure on the other side of the earth!