I remember the first time I stepped off the pavement and onto the dirt. Two days earlier I had flown long haul to Australia with no real plan other than escaping a life I knew I could not stay in. I had been stuck in hospitality in the UK; everything felt stagnant; nothing was tying me down. So I booked a flight, packed a bag, and within two weeks I was on the other side of the world. I landed in Torquay, Victoria, at the start of the Great Ocean Road. I had been a road runne