LA is horrible. Especially when you’ve just been travelling for 24 hours and have no idea where you’re going. This may seem obvious to all those familiar with the US but I had no idea how long the streets were. We caught a train to Long Beach Blvd where our budget motel was situated, assuming […]

So I’ve been in this heaps good country they called ‘Strayla’ for 1 year and 9 months. In that time I’ve bungee jumped in Cairns, NYE’d in Surfers, made Byron Bay my home for over a year, bought a car, lived in a car, crashed said car into a kangaroo (RIP Lola), picked rotten grapes for $5 per hour, sat at a desk for $35 per […]

From an action packed adventure in Rover Park we headed Northeast to Bald Rock National Park which had been recommended to me by my adventure loving parents when they visited in January. They definitely did not let me down. After travelling for an hour without seeing any other signs of human life we arrived at […]

Magna plus sunflower After over a year of living in paradise Rach and I decided it was time to get out of our comfort zone and get exploring. Apparently Australia is a big place and life exists outside the Bay; I’m not sure about this theory but I’m more than happy to test it out! As […]

I have spent almost a week in Cairns, Queensland in the mighty Australia. In this time I have explored rainforests, swam with turtles, lazed on deserted beaches, experienced true terror followed by pure adrenalin and even picked up some Australian lingo. I arrived in the small town of Cairns exhausted after a overnight flight from […]

Today I leave Asia and fly to Cairns in Australia. I can’t believe my four months in this wonderful continent is over; in some ways it feels like I have been backpacking around the South East of this wonderful continent my whole life, however, I could quite easily spend another four months in Thailand, Laos, […]