25 October, 2013 6:25PM AEST

Hoop dreams

"I've got instant dance, instant music, and instant mobility with a folding bike!"

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Abby Taylor lives a portable life. Hailing from Baltimore in the USA, Abby moved to Toowoomba as a nanny 18 months ago. Now, that might not sound long, but for someone who hasn't lived in any place for more than five months in the last five years it's "kind of a big deal!"

"I met my partner through a bushwalking club in Toowoomba," Abby explains. "He happens to be from Spain. We went backpacking through south-east Asia, and now we're back because his job is here, and it's for two years. Two years is kind of a big deal when you're used to picking up and moving every five months!"

As you can see in the film she starred in for ABC Open, Abby rides a foldable bike, dances with a foldable hula hoop, and plays the recorder, an instrument "that's pretty small. You can just stick it in your backpack and you've got instant music!"

Abby loves hula hooping. "In Toowoomba I'm probably one of the only ones who does it. In other places in the world it's more usual, but there is a bunch of aspiring circus kids in town who are practicing hooping."

She says she loves the freedom and artistic expression that comes with hooping, even though her current city of residence is a little slower-paced than she's used to.

"There's nobody on the streets after 6pm!" She laughs. "In Spain, where my partner's from, there's people everywhere out until midnight. I guess in that regard it's kind of a sleepy town. It's a family town, I guess no one is out because everyone has children and they're all having dinner and tucking them into bed."

"I've lived in some really exotic places. What I really love is places that have a lot of art and music, and everything creative. I'd like to see Toowoomba supporting more art and music, and I think that's slowly happening."

If you have a crazy passion, make sure you share it with ABC Open.