Article in The Evening Star, 2/1/97

BACKPACKER Emma Morton starts the trip of a lifetime this month - two years travelling the world. The telesales adviser with the East Anglian Daily Times flies to Cape Town, South Africa, on January 20. Emma, 19, will then meet up with her boyfriend Ian Lowe, and his friend Martin Mann, 29, who left in November. She said: "There is so much organisation I would just like to hide and have it all done for me, but it is really exciting."

Their journey will take them backpacking across Africa, India and Australia. They will be armed with little more than a tent, a few items of clothing and first aid kits. "I am not taking many clothes, a lot of medical stuff. You have to get different things just in case you get mountain sickness or malaria," said Emma, who lives on the Rivers Estate in Ipswich.

They will probably only work on some legs of the journey. Emma explained: "We have work permits for Australia but it is not worth doing it anywhere else because they pay so little money."

Friends can keep up to date with how the group are getting on thanks to the internet. Postcards sent to one of their friends will be scanned in to a computer so it can be seen by anyone. To keep up to date with them, access the web site on http://geocities.datacellar.net/TheTropics/8144.

Reproduced by kind permission of the The Evening Star, Ipswich. [MAIL]

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