In my 28 years, I’ve traveled quite a lot. That said, I’ve never before had to be vaccinated before I’ve gone anywhere. I’ve had my usual US mandated vaccinations in order to attend public school and college… but never specifically for travel purposes. Before I was even planning this trip, I had spoken at length […]
UGH. Let’s talk about how when I got my passport back yesterday there was NOT a visa for Egypt in there. Instead there was a note with a different application form. The note simply said: “Plz Apply NY Office.” GOSH DARNIT WHAT!? Sooooo because I’m a crazy nervous person, I actually sent out my passport […]
Alright… I broke down and checked the tracking numbers for my Egyptian visa… and it looks like my passport arrived at the Embassy on Monday and was put in the mail BACK TO ME ALREADY!!! As of THIS MORNING! I’m really hoping this was just an amazingly fast processing and not that something’s wrong… but […]
OMG A BLOG POST! Starting this isn’t the easiest thing in the world… but I suppose that could be said for this entire venture that I’m about to disclose to you, so it’s rather appropriate in a meta sort of way… Since 2011, or maybe even before that, (I can say 2011 definitively because I […]
Having only one full day in Darwin meant that we had to prebook a tour and it had to pick us up where we were staying, so we could maximize our time in the area. I’m sure you’re wondering why we even bothered GOING to Darwin when we had such a short time there, but […]
Nothing can ever, EVER be simple when I’m with my family. However, this vacation’s challenge proved to be one of the craziest things we’ve ever had to figure out. While we were traveling in Australia, one of Indonesia’s active volcanoes erupted. Since it’s a known active volcano, no big deal right? Eehhhh wrong. The aftereffects […]
Red Center. I actually had NO IDEA about this location until my mom mentioned that she really wanted to see Uluru (renamed by the white settlers as Ayers Rock). Which, again, I have to admit I was kind of embarrassing but hey, what’s life without a little embarrassment right? I spent some time doing some […]
Let’s be honest… you CAN’T go to Australia without at least entertaining a plan to visit the Great Barrier Reef. It wasn’t any different for me, my mom and my brother. The question was really… where to even start the research! There are an inordinate amount of companies with all different kinds of services for […]
Similar to when we went to the Blue Mountains, I was convinced that we could visit Kuranda without an overpriced tour. Needless to say, as always, might I add, I was right! Kuranda is *incredibly* easy to get to from Cairns… here’s what we did! Step 1 We took a Taxi to the Kuranda Skyrail […]
One of the recommendations from our Free! Tour guide was to check out the “Secret Bar” scene in Sydney. Clearly, since these are secret, Matt and I had NOT heard anything about this Sydney cultural gem before we went on the tour. However, our guide recommended a few of the venues and encouraged us to […]
