I’M BACK!!! Yes, I finally have Internet connection (or at least a stable one which doesn’t cut out all the time) so that means an update is in order. After spending two-and-a-half months in the Catskill Mountains in New York State at an American Summer Camp it’s finished! My goal has been completed and it [...] 
So once again I’m at that magical ‘two-days to go’ place. Passport – check; Visas – check, Clothes washed, ironed and packed – uhrm… I think the fact I’m leaving on wednesday *fingers crossed* hasn’t really hit me properly yet. I talked earlier about having the realisation flood me a few weeks ago, but with [...] 
It seems like a familiar thing this week. Me sitting at my desk pulling my hair out with lists and pieces of paper surrounding me and a thousand things running through my head. As a form of rebellion against my lists I decided I should check my email and from doing so my stressful week [...] Travel hiccups are often unaviodable. Missing documets, cancelled or delayed flights, illness – it’s just a fact of life and travellers must best cope with it as well as they can. I may be delaying my travel plans for 5-days due to not having received my passport back from the British Consulate yet (but my Visa [...] So, there’s FIVE days til I leave and I am beginning to panic. I just managed to move back to Adelaide, from my University College is Melbourne and I have found it is AMAZING how much of a consumer-whore you can be in a short 9-months! To give you an example of this my 32kg [...] 
The truth is I am a horrendous packer. I frequently fly between different states to see friends and family, and despite the frequent travels my packing habits have gotten way out of hand! When I travel, it’s generally for 4-days but I will still pack a bag big enough to travel overseas for a month. I [...] It hit around 11pm last night. I was driving along the Southern Freeway on my way home listening to ‘Perfectly Lonely’ by John Mayer and a nerve was struck realising that the party I had just left contained friends I probably wouldn’t see again until I return from my journey. “Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A [...] 
So many people underestimate the size of Australia, but it’s a big place. A lot of friends have visited Australia thinking they only need a fortnight to see all that the country has to offer… what a shock they get when they find out that to fly from Sydney to Perth it takes at least [...] 
So there is officially 17 days til lift-off! I should be excited, bouncing around and telling everyone but instead I find myself losing hours of sleep, eating far to many yogos (a chocolate custard-type food product) and basically ready to pull my hair out with the stress of it all. I’m a second year University [...] 
This is a traditional Junk on Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. I just love the striking colours of the red sails in contrast to the greys of the sky-line, water and fog covered background of Hong Kong Island. 
