Meet the world's luckiest traveler

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 11:00 — Anonymous by Ian Lloyd Neubauer It's a bold
boast and one we'd all like to lay claim to, but what makes Briton Ben
Southall the world's luckiest traveler? Try this for starters: winner of
Tourism Queensland's 2009 "Best Job in the World" -- a six-month stint
as caretaker of Hamilton Island that paid AU$150,000 (US$154,000) -- Southall
beat 34,684 hopefuls from 200 countries to get the job of a lifetime. While
that should be enough for the former charity fundraiser from Hampshire,
Southall's luck just keeps on rolling in. Since completing the caretaker
gig a little more than two years ago, he spent six months traveling Europe,
Asia and the Americas as the face of a global sales mission for Queensland.
The journey saw him eat scorpions on Taiwanese TV, visit a travel agency in
Guangzhou that was plastered with his photos and hobnob with John Travolta
and Greg Norman in Los Angeles.read more