‘Oh well, that’s one to tell your kids’ – a line from my dad’s email after telling him I’d lost my backpack in Canada – August 2011.

´A traveller carries no bigger weight than wisdom´– inside Keflavik airport, Iceland – August 2013.

‘You know you’re too close to civilisation when you see an ipad’ – a man in Glacier National Park, USA – August 2014.

‘You’re doing the right thing – travelling when you’re young…before doing it again when you’re older!’ – a campground host in Arizona, USA – August 2014.

‘We played with marbles and climbed tall trees; now kids can’t play without batteries’ – a sign approaching the entrance to a town called Panguitch in Utah, USA – August 2014.