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John Ahern

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Brisbane, Australia
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Travel, Memoir, Nonfiction

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John Ahern is the author of 'On The Road With Kids', a travel memoir that won the Queensland People's Choice Book of the Year 2015. He was born in Brisbane, Australia and grew up in Redcliffe where he roamed the beaches and played backyard cricket with his mates. His career spanned from mowing lawns and packing groceries to being the global head of Mergers and Acquisitions for a public listed company.
In between serious bouts of work, he has travelled through over 80 countries and been shot at, poisoned, tear-gassed, robbed at gunpoint and locked up in an African jail. He has also stowed away in a Colombian cargo plane ridden across countries on the back of trucks and the roofs of buses, flown in an ultralight over the Zambezi and been a pas ...more

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I'm glad you liked my review of 'On The Road With Kids'. Do you think being confined and learning from what was happening around them made your kids more resilient?
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I think it made them more resilient to change; it certainly made them better leaners, reading and doing puzzles, rather than always being 'con…moreHi Jill,
I think it made them more resilient to change; it certainly made them better leaners, reading and doing puzzles, rather than always being 'connected'.
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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll
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