It’s a weird feeling to have your dream come true. To know you’ve conquered it. To have set goals and spent countless seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks fantasizing about what it would be like, imaging how it would feel, picturing it becoming a reality. Then to have it happen; in some ways exactly how you’d expected it to be and in some ways more different than your wildest dreams. It’s not sad exactly, because you achieved it, but it’s weird. Like, what do you dream of

Whenever I book a trip to a new place there are a few things that I always do immediately after confirming my flights: Buy the Lonely Planet guide, read loads of blog posts from other travel bloggers and search on YouTube! When Lewis and I booked our trip to Bali we jumped straight on YouTube and found this fantastic video posted by Christian LeBlanc of Lost LeBlanc (check him out for travel vlogs so amazing you’ll want to drop everything and get on the next flight) who did a

OK, prepare yourself… after reading this post you’re going to REALLY want to book a trip. Let me rephrase that… after seeing the glassy clear blue seawater, the fresh white sand and the royal blue skies in these photos you’re going to have to literally hold yourself back from jumping on the next boat to Gili Air. Get ready… After two days on Gili Trawangan we were eager to see more of what the Gili Islands had to offer. So on day three we woke up early and set off for Gili Ai

This Saturday Lewis and I got to knock off something that’s been on our Noosa bucket lists since we moved here: Explore the Noosa Everglades! The Noosa Everglades are only miles from our house and are one of only two Everglade systems in the world (the other being in Florida). Over 44% of all Australia’s bird species reside within this region, 1,365 species of plants have been identified and over 700 native animals co-exist in the Noosa Everglades. At 10am we met our boat in

Business class is THE ONE. GUYS, guys, seriously, this is the absolute best way to travel. My flight from Boston to Dubai to Sydney back in September was the absolute worst. It’s 12 hours from Boston to Dubai and then it was another 14 from Dubai to Sydney and let me tell you that is one heck of a long time to sit in a teeny tiny seat right up close to a stranger and not get any sleep. That being said, I was REALLY not looking forward to this flight from Sydney to Singapore (

Watching the New Year’s Eve fireworks in Sydney is a major travel goal for so many people, myself included!! This year I was lucky enough to take part in the festivities and it was totally worth the hype!! We grabbed an Uber and met my family at their Darlinghurst Airbnb. Being NYE, Sydney was crazy and we were so lost as to where we should watch the fireworks. To access one of the Sydney city recommended spots you have to line up (or even camp out!) hours and hours in advanc

It’s been 100 days since I left home on my year long adventure around the world and I’ve already learned so much more than any class has ever taught me. Take LOADS of pictures and videos. Just when you think you have enough, take double what you already have. Buying food from grocery stores will alway be cheaper than eating out. Buy a reusable water bottle. You’ll save hundreds. Make connections: some of the best days of travel were when we reached out to friends of friends o

It’s been two months! Here’s a list of random thoughts/things I’ve noticed over the past few weeks that I’ve been keeping on the notes section of my iPhone for your reading entertainment. Two months later and I think I’ve only just gotten over the dehydration from the flight out here. Not being dramatic. I would give my first born child for a Dunkin iced coffee. I never knew how dependent on iced coffee I was until I had to live without it for two months. They just. Can’t. Fi

Holy cow have I had a hard time uploading this video! Wi-fi in Australia gets 2 big thumbs down. Fraser Island on the other hand gets all the thumbs up haha. Hands down the best weekend we have had in Australia so far! From speeding down remote beaches in our own 4WDs, a scenic sea flight, swimming in crystal clear Lake Mackenzie to tubing in Eli Creek, it was an absolutely incredible 3 days with some equally incredible people. Will do a full post on our weekend soon but in t

Here’s a little video of what we were up to on the Gold Coast. A whole lotta kayaking and saw a bunch of strange little Aussie critters. Enjoy! #explore #goldcoast #brisbane #featured #vlog #queensland #backpacker #oz #BACKPACKING #wanderlust #travelaustralia #NEWSOUTHWALES #travel #surfersparadise #byronbay #goldcoast #femaletravel #AUSTRALIA #solofemaletravel #eastcoasttour

A quick video of some of the awesome hikes around Sydney I did before I started the road trip up the East Coast of Australia. First bit is from the Coogee to Bondi coastal path in Sydney and the second is from The Blue Mountains hike about a 2 hour train ride from the city. Such beautiful places! Click here to read the full post about the Blue Mountains. #explore #BLUEMOUNTAINS #featured #backpackers #oz #BACKPACKING #wanderlust #NEWSOUTHWALES #travel #HIKING #COOGEEBEACH #HI

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Somehow we’ve been on the road for two weeks now and it has both felt like two years and two seconds. Funny how that happens. We’ve done absolutely loads in the last two weeks and now we’ve got a few days in Sydney to just chill out before we have another wild 16 days ahead of us. I had previously written we’d be doing the east coast tour as far as Noosa but now it looks like we’ll be doing Fraser Island as well (no complaints over here!!) We’ve said goodbye to some of the am

This week has been so crazy and packed with fun activities I haven’t had a chance to write so here’s an update on how the last week has gone. In a word, AMAZING!!! Seriously, Ultimate has been such a great decision I am SO glad we decided to do it and I literally don’t know what we would have done if we hadn’t done this program (probably turned around and come home to be honest). If anyone out there is reading this thinking about doing a Working Holiday definitely definitely

If you haven’t already heard, Lewis and I are moving to Australia! We’re headed Down Under on a year-long working holiday visa. I leave for Oz on September 14th from Boston Logan Airport at the same time Lewis will leave from London Heathrow and (if all goes according to plan) our planes will reach Dubai airport early morning on the 15th. Why Dubai? No particular reason other than when else are we going to have the chance to visit Dubai?! But also, neither of us wanted to fly