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…
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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…
five reasons i have no friends
When I first typed that out, I thought to myself, what a sad title for a post. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. Of course I have friends. Sort of. My friends are scattered across the world. They’re in Scotland. In London, Paris, Germany. Turkey. India. Australia. New Zealand….
dear date: a letter to potential boyfriends
*edited December 2016. In February, this post struck a nerve with a girl who thought I was writing about her “boyfriend.” So, before all you girls go mental on me, a disclaimer: I’m literally writing this to any potential guys I might meet and sorry (not sorry) that my imagined scenarios just happen to match…
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…
a series of important events
It crossed my mind during the Brexit polling and the recent US election (both of which I followed live from down here in NZ) that a LOT of unique and important things have happened over the course of my lifetime. My generation has seen more good and bad things thanks to the invention of social…
travel essay: bittersweet feelings on leaving dunedin and more
“The time has come, the walrus said, to think of many things: Of shoes–and ships– and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” // Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland This post has been very hard to write. I’m sitting in my flat kitchen for the…
hello!
I have to share this crazy win — thanks to the fantastic people over at @LoveDunedin and the Dunedin Facebook page, my post about 25 things to do in Dunedin went viral. I can’t say how excited I was when I opened my app and found that my views for the day were at well…