Sam Walker's Desert Diaries
What's it like to actually follow your dreams?Desert Diaries is the brutally honest account of one family's move from the rainy suburbs of Manchester to the scorched wilderness of Arizona.Excitement, frustration, fear, joy, loneliness and scorpions. Quite a lot of scorpions. All life is here.For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Episodes
Do you have a crazy dream? Have you done anything about it?
We had one, but didn't act on it for years.
Until we did.
And here is how it all began.
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week one: We made it....but only just!
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week two: It's hotting up, the girls start school and we have a birthday. Oh, and everyone thinks we're Australian
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week three: We discover the massively overpriced "British section" in our local supermarket. Enjoy a very generous, but slightly bizarre gesture of hospitality and tell the tale of the pets jetting in!
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week four: AGHHHHHHH!! Feeling 17 again, for ALL the wrong reasons......
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week five: Double success at adulting, starting to feel like we're getting there. Plus, shoe shopping...for the dog.
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week six: It's so hot, I feel like a Sunday Roast. Not eating one, I feel like I am one. And life and housework goes on, but it's fun to find the joy in the mundane.
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week seven: The misters arrive, showing that summer is here. The dreaded spectre of homesickness also pays a visit.
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week eight: We drive south on a birthday roadtrip and sample local delicacies, gawp at local flora and enjoy a dive in movie.
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week nine: Our furniture finally arrives after its epic journey and we move into our new house...where horror awaits!
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week ten: Dave invests in a scorpion hunting kit whilst I use the power of podcasts to banish the beasties
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week eleven: Oh no. Just what you don't want to find in your garden part 497.....
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week twelve: The first monsoon of the season rolls into town and we discover the cacti are spying on us...
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week thirteen: La La Land. We nip up the road to Hollywood
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week fourteen: It's already back to school. despite being early August and I learn that unless you really need to, just don't get out of the car.
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week fifteen: We head to Payson, often called the Heart Of Arizona and discover an unique shop - that's for sale!
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week sixteen: A devastating week for our family when we get a cruel reminder that with adventure, comes risk.
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week seventeen: The dog finds us our first live snake! We ride back in time on our first desert trek and learn the legend of lost gold!
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week eighteen: I finally pass my driving test...28 years after taking my first one! Life throws us a curve ball and I need to leave the USA.
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
Week nineteen: I head to Australia to wait and see how sick my mum is. Its the second time in my life I hadn't planned to go to Perth, but ended up there....
For pictures, you can find me on instagram @samwalkerradio and on twitter @walkersam
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