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After a year in Australia, it was finally time to leave. My visa was up on April 3rd, and that meant I needed to leave my adopted country or else I faced some serious fines. It’s hard to believe that my Great Escape is almost over! I should have spent my final day in Australia exploring the highlights of Sydney, …

My year in Australia is quickly coming to an end. During February, I finished up my 15 weeks working on the horse farm and began my travels up the East Coast of Australia. It was a bittersweet month as I was truly sad to leave the horse farm but excited to return to my nomadic life on the road. Even …

As a child, I remember summer vacation lasting forever, but as an adult, a month is gone with just the snap of my fingers. 2016 came and went in a flash of passport stamps, currencies, and sleepless nights. I welcomed 2017 in with a few strangers I met at my hostel at some cheap club in Newcastle, Australia. Personally, I …

If I had to choose one word to describe my December, it would be “work.” I worked over the Christmas holidays at the horse farm, which was awesome because public holidays are double time. Cha-ching! When I wasn’t with the horses, I was slaving away on my computer working on my client project that was due at the end of …

  After several months of being “homeless,” I finally settled down for a while to work. And, it feels good. Much of October was in flux for me as I wasn’t sure if I would be returning home to Maine for my dream job or if I would continue to stay in Australia until my visa runs out in April. …

October was a rather laidback month physically, but emotionally I was on a rollercoaster ride. Ever since I returned to Australia in August, I’ve been fighting homesickness that waxes and wanes. Just when I accepted that I would stay in Australia until my visa runs out in March 2017, I got an email from a dream publication about a possible …