Lost & Found

As a solo traveller for the best part of my 20’s, waking up in different surrounds, writing most days, producing music & poems, learning different cultures, languages and ways of life, getting lost down back streets of foreign cities with graffiti cans, living off £10 a day for food and drink, popping to local hip hop shows at coffee shops, or punk shows in dingy basements.. relocating back home to New Zealand can bring many things. It can deliver happiness during the same moment it provides loneliness. It shares boredom whilst presenting curiosity. It can honour gratitude and the split second it prop’s up jealousy. It can bring peace and the feeling of being grounded whilst dreaming of that Mediterranean coast.

Here I am, content, in a small house with the love of my life, and what I consider successful - in a wonderful small city.

My best friends, old friends, new friends, family from afar, family from near are all around me. I have a good paying job, I lead a relatively healthy lifestyle involving near travel to destinations reachable over a weekend by car. We cook every night, eat well and generally the roof over our heads is perfect.

Yet something is missing.

My name is Samuel Brian Goodwin.

Welcome to The Lost Archives, where we will rediscover my travel journal, I will write what I have down and re-create to share a misty road once travelled.

Peace & Love

SBG