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New Saskatchewan wanderer

Ashlyn George is not your average tourist.Over the past five years, George has spent 24 months total travelling the globe. She has visited more than 300 cities in 37 countries.
Saskatchewan Wanderer

Ashlyn George is not your average tourist.Over the past five years, George has spent 24 months total travelling the globe. She has visited more than 300 cities in 37 countries.

Along the way, she has gone skydiving and bungee jumping in New Zealand, volcano boarding in Nicaragua and shipwreck diving in the Philippines. She has trekked through the Amazon rainforest in Peru.

Travelling is her passion and she didn’t know if she’d ever find a job that could excite her enough to stop travelling for 12 consecutive months.  That is, until her mother sent her a job ad for the Saskatchewanderer position. She knew she had to apply.

While in Madagascar, George shot and edited her application video, wrote a cover letter, proofread her resume and submitted all the necessary materials.  Despite the nine-hour time difference, George showed up for her interview right on time — via Skype.

Although George was only a couple of months into a planned six-month trip to Africa, as soon as the job offer came through, she began the search for a flight home.  George currently lives in Saskatoon and grew up on a farm near Leslie.

“I wanted this job so much that I was willing to stop travelling the world and return to Saskatchewan,” George said. “Nothing beats meeting new people, trying new food and experiencing spectacular landscapes. And now I’m ready to do that in my home province: Saskatchewan. We enjoy a terrific quality of life here and I can’t wait to show the world that.”

“We are delighted to welcome Ashlyn back to her home province,” Minister of Parks, Culture and Sport Mark Docherty said. “I’m sure she, with her incredible travelling experience, will eagerly explore Saskatchewan with fresh eyes and share with the public what makes it a great place to live, work and play.”

CAA Saskatchewan is the exclusive sponsor of the 2015 Saskatchewanderer project.

She will be employed as the Saskatchewanderer until December 2015.