“It’s not too late to turn back,” I tested my boyfriend, as we stared glumly through the windshield. Streamers of rain dropped from sodden beech trees, obscuring our view of the rustic cabins ahead. On the night of my one and only 30th birthday abroad, we’d booked into the Paradise Trust homestead. Yet that morning, […]
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Travel Excuses, #1: A Friend’s Foreign Wedding
“Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” – Nicholas Bouvier, The Way of The World When it comes to our nomadic movements, my boyfriend and I rarely need travel excuses. Two years ago, we rushed […]
How Not to Sneak Through New Zealand Customs
I blame the internet. If the winds across South Australia’s Nullarbor Plain had not weakened my Wi-Fi signal, I could have looked up New Zealand Customs requirements before flying over for a short vacation. If the previous working placement had not been in such a remote location, I might have popped into an internet cafe […]