Travel teaches you all sorts of life lessons. Fellow nomads come into your life for a hot minute to teach you something, and sometimes they stay and other times they go. I’ve learned a lot about myself while travelling but I have also learned a lot about life. Life is messy, complicated, and weird sometimes….
Category: expat life
big road trip: week four
A month ago, I packed up my life in Dunedin and headed out on one last big road trip across New Zealand. Here is week three! ** dates of travel: 29 Nov – 3 Dec Back in Queenstown, I set about getting ready to get back on the road. This involved laundry, some last-minute wifi…
my top fifteen NZ moments
As my time in New Zealand finally draws to a close (cue sad music here), I wanted to take some time to look back on the last year and share with you some of my favourite moments of the last fourteen months. This country is incredible. I think I have seen almost everything, driven on…
big road trip: detour to auckland
A month ago, I packed up my life in Dunedin and headed out on one last big road trip across New Zealand. Here is week three! dates of travel: 17-29 Nov 2016 I arrived in Auckland during rush hour, which sounds as awful as it was, and caught the shuttle to Jack’s apartment. I spent…
my adventures on stewart island
Mid-October, I requested Sunday – Tuesday off and I set my car up for some glamping (because when you have a world map pillowcase, it’s not really camping.) After work on Saturday, I tucked into my car and drove an hour and a half south of Dunedin to Jacks Bay, where I parked my car…
big road trip: week two
A month ago, I packed up my life in Dunedin and headed out on one last big road trip across New Zealand. Here is week two! ** dates of travel: 9-14 Nov 2016 From Dunedin, I went south. I had already done the Catlins so I contented myself with some time in Invercarill and Riverton….
big road trip: week one
A month ago, I packed up my life in Dunedin and headed out on one last big road trip across New Zealand. Here is week one! ** dates of travel: 1-8 Nov 2016 It was absolutely pouring down when I drove out of Dunedin for the second to last time. I’m talking streaming down the…
starting my own business: money
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I have been thinking, planning, and otherwise procrastinating about starting my business. Well, that time has come and I’m itching to get out into the wild world of travel planning. My goal is to be open for clients by the end of January…
music as travel memories
I was having a conversation the other night with my manager at work while we were waiting for the last stragglers to leave. We were chatting about all sorts of random stuff when this song came over the Spotify. “…I wasn’t expecting that…” I groaned and laughed at the same time: this same manager had…
in photos: day one on the coromandel
My brother arrived in Auckland yesterday for just one tiny week – which is broken up by a bachelor party (Tues) and a wedding (Fri) – so we have these random patches of days in which to do stuff. I met him at the airport early and after getting a car and picking up another…