Why single, independent women travelling around the world get so little respect?
Simone is from New Zealand and by this time she knew all too well what it was like to be a single woman travelling around the world. She participated in some great paragliding competitions and joined paragliders in Peru, Greece, Cape Town man… I lost count, but she has pretty much been in places where I can’t even pronounce the name or even the country properly and just like myself Simone was certainly targeted in the workplace, by players (men), in gatherings, in environments (gosh I wished we knew better, then) where women like us i.e. who earned our own money, struggled to make it overseas, lived clean were seen as a threat.