Andrew spent significant time on the road travelling around Australia, living in his van, and stretching his funds as far as possible. During these years, he witnessed cultures and lifestyles being lived by people that were vastly different to his upbringing as a child. Some of these people chose this way of living - others had it forced upon them. Often times he found himself talking with much older people in remote towns throughout Australia - people who confided in him and shared their personal struggles with their ability, and often times inability, to function properly in society. To get to these near-uninhabited locations, which were sprinkled with people that gave him an impression of bleak emptiness, Andrew travelled through affluent suburbs. Something about the big homes, and fancy cars parked out front, gave him an acute awareness of the widening gap between rich and poor. This was made evident even more so when he began travelling overseas for several months at a time, as he began to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. As a young adult, he distinctly remembers driving through Las Vegas. As multi-billion dollar casinos whizzed past, around the next corner he was forced to stop dead in his tracks as he witnessed homeless people with nothing but a ripped tarp to sleep on.