About

Posted by Adam Jadhav

My couch was far too comfortable for my own good. So I left it — and the rest of a great, soft life in St. Louis — behind.

Since I entered J-School, I had been dreaming of being a foreign correspondent. Unfortunately, the industry doesn’t have the scratch to afford many of those these days.

For a while, I was content to travel on my vacations. I took time off in school to backpack through India. I made a stopover in Italy. And worked on a radio documentary in Peru.

When I entered the real world — a job at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch — I was still dreaming.

I honed my skills — writing, video, photo, audio. I went overseas as often as I could, usually no more than a week or two at a time: Mexico, Jamaica, Lebanon, Cuba and India.

But it was never enough.

I finally pulled the trigger in the summer of 2009, told the bosses I’d be quitting and bought plane tickets. My first stop was Kenya, then Madagascar, then Kenya again. I’m now in India for a longer stay, with plans of trips elsewhere (Thailand for at start, but who knows where the winds will blow).

I work in all media and am presently unemployed and touring. I can be reached by my e-mail address, ajadhav@gmail.com; my U.S. voicemail number, +1 (623) AJA-DHAV; or an SMS to my Indian mobile, +91 (0) 80-55-15-14-23.

I’m also on the Web elsewhere:

I’m following a great Hindi phrase: Kuch bhi ho sakta hai. Anything can happen.

And I definitely don’t miss the couch.

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Permalink | July 4th, 2009

4 Responses to “About”

  1. Megan Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    I look forward to following your adventures!

  2. Ben Poston Says:
    November 7th, 2009 at 10:42 am

    You are a brave soul, Adam. Very impressed. You are doing what I’ve sometimes dreamed of.

  3. Brian Smith Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Awesome stuff! I particularly like your venture into the Wordpress domain

  4. Alexis Grant Says:
    April 26th, 2010 at 7:14 am

    Love this! The blog looks awesome. Will follow along.

    — A fellow backpack journo

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