As our independent travel week commenced Emma and I took off to the gold coast to hang out with the hippy, world traveling backpackers of Byron Bay. We spent our week with sandy bottoms, surfer babe hair, and some pretty gnarly burn lines. On Tuesday of that week we were driven away from the sandy […]

Life is the beach. Let’s be real, a huge reason why Australia is an amazing place to study abroad is because of their easily accessible beaches. You can hop on one bus and thirty to forty minutes later, you’ve arrived. While we were in Sydney some friends and I decided to go to Coogee, probably […]

Expectations are a funny thing. They can mold and shape your opinion on anything. Whether they are high or low, expectations almost always find themselves to be vastly different from the realities of life. I couldn’t tell you what I expected this past week as I flew from Brisbane north to Proserpine. Hell, I’d only […]

Last week, Sarah and I hopped on a bus from Brisbane to Byron Bay, a backpacking, beach bum surfer’s paradise. If you have a trust fund back home and plenty of time to chill, this is the place to spend it all.   As we walked down the street, travel companies made it rain with […]

After flying from Sydney to the Gold Coast for a wonderful week at Aboriginal Camp, I made my way to Adelaide and then to Kangaroo Island on a miniature jumper plane to meet up with my family for my Independent Study Week. Kangaroo Island, a dry summer grassland with marvelous wines and cheeses, has preserved […]