Goodbye Australia!
WOW so we are down to the final few days now… Its Thursday 22nd December 2011 and we are “due” to depart Australia on Sunday 25th December but as there is a cyclone due to form around Darwin on...
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For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same...
View ArticleTips for surviving long-term travel with your partner
This article below was written for a US-based travel company called “YouBackpacking”, which is aimed at long-term travel. It sounds like the perfect picture: Just you and the love of your life, alone...
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“Do you think it’s so snobbish, to want to see something besides one’s fellow citizens abroad?” — Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis (Brett & I’s sentiments exactly… We didn’t travel half way around...
View ArticleThought of the day – Living the dream
“Living the dream” definition as found on the Internet: Definition A: That a person has desired something and has now achieved it Definition B: Living a life that is the realization of their own...
View ArticleThe final days in Thailand
Wow, I can’t believe it’s finally time to leave Thailand. We’re sitting out in the garden at our guesthouse in Bangkok after an overnight bus from Chiang-Mai, waiting to check into our room… We’re...
View ArticleThought of the day: Long term travel with your partner
I’ve touched on this topic before, but as Bretto & I near the end of our 18-month “Big Trip”, I feel the need to reflect on what we’ve learnt and how we’ve grown, and changed, from long term...
View Article515 Days of Summer
After 515 days of travelling through South India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, North India, Burma and Vietnam, I’ve come out the other end of this voyage a much different person than the one I was when...
View ArticleBack in the land of Vegemite
So the looming date of May 22nd has come and gone, and we are finally back on home soil. I was pleasantly surprised to find I woke up on May 22nd excited and full of energy – I thought it would be a...
View ArticleHow long-term travel changed EVERYTHING
OK so I admit it’s been a quiet few months on the blog since I returned home to Australia, and more specifically my home town of Darwin… Life has taken a very different turn from the one I had for the...
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