Scams, screams and soldiers: My life as a professional tourist

I have accidentally angered Nepalese soldiers, scaled an active volcano in the dark in the Philippines, been trapped in a terrifying Chinese scam and faced my mortality on Indian mountainside roads.

A "professional tourist" like me does not have a plush job. Instead, my life is comparable to pandemic journeys - always unpredictable, sometimes unnerving, yet consistently enjoyable.