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Good to be home after a snowy, chilly & action-pac Good to be home after a snowy, chilly & action-packed visit to Canada for the holidays ❄️ As always, had little pings of sadness & homesickness throughout the trip - the goodbyes & nieces begging you to stay is always a heartbreaker! 😞Simultaneously, the *other* little things that affirm your decision to live so darn far help ease the pain (snow, arctic temps & lack of good ☕️, sorry Canada 🤪). A fresh Sydney cold brew helps melt the guilts away (& adjust your body from subzero to scorching temps 🥵🔥). On that note, the bushfires here are STILL blazing. Human lives have been lost, endless landscapes have turned to ash, and an unfathomable amount of wildlife has perished 😞 The second photo is an actual image I took yesterday here in Sydney - all the cars here became dusted in ash from “brown rain” (rain + bushfire ash). If you can, please donate to support (Red Cross link in profile). 🙏🏻 May 2020 bring you happiness, health & lots of new adventures near or far 😊✨✈️🌍✌🏻
An ode to creating local travel ventures ! ✨ Eve An ode to creating local travel ventures ! ✨ Even “humdrum” suburbs can have curious historic places or a scenic lookout or trail that any foreigner may find interesting! Check out your local tourism board sites & guidebooks to find sites and hikes you may not have known about. 🍁 In a recent family visit to London (Ontario), we found the gorgeous Eldon House - a beautiful 19th century home filled unique and eclectic global collections of art and artefacts, including collections of pieces from Janpanese Samari stirrups and (looted) Egyptian artifacts, to an original leaf-wrapped African voodoo shaman kit with its original contents inside. Rhino horns, warthog antlers and more even a real elephant foot (for storing umbrellas) were adorned the home. It’s easy to dream of faraway places but don’t neglect the interesting sites close to home, no matter how seemingly “bland” they may be. Lookouts & historic sites will and always can be appreciated by fhe curious and motivated.
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Chilly day out visiting our old stomping grounds - Chilly day out visiting our old stomping grounds - back where it all began ✨ Where on a single night shift, a coworker convinced me to do my masters in Australia (as opposed to Toronto). I told Ted on picking me up from my hospital shift that we were moving to Australia. About 8 months later we left with a one way ticket to Colombia, backpacking for half a year before arriving in Aus. Before our departure we meticulously we sold every last one of our belongings, with seemingly infinite Craigslist & Kijiji buyers knocking at our door. We were scared shitless that we’d ruined our career prospects and derailed our “perfectly planned” lives (*gag*). 6 years later and none of that mattered. FYI, the world is freaking awesome and certainly worth exploring long-term, if you so wish! The best outcome of all this was realizing how paralyzing fear is. Logic holds value in life but too often it’s predominantly steering, squashing our “in another lifetime” dreams. This is the only lifetime you have, chase those damn dreams & finally make them happen ✨- J
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