When I returned home for a fleeting few weeks of work last June after living in Melbourne for four months, everyone wanted to know one thing: had I seen any deadly animals? Spiders? Snakes? Sharks? My answer (unfortunately for them, and luckily for me!)…
Broome has a certain reputation when it comes to sunsets. Across Australia, and even beyond, Cable Beach is famous for its golden hour. Every evening, when the sun dips behind the Indian Ocean and casts its glow across the sand, you can bet that…
In Broome, my life revolves around two things: work, and Cable Beach. I can’t begin to count the number of times I’ve planned to spend my days off writing or researching or doing laundry only to find myself wandering down to the beach instead.…
This is the Australia I dreamed of finding. Imagine sheets of rock streaked wildly terra cotta, searing against the sun-flecked azure of the Indian Ocean. The sky is pale, whitewashed by the heat. The stones underwater shimmer gold while, in the distance, the dunes…
Australia has a pretty strong international reputation when it comes to drinking, but it’s certainly not the country’s only great national pasttime. As it turns out, Aussies also love to gamble. Australia actually boasts the highest rate of gambling in the world, a fact…
At heart, I’m not exactly a city girl. I grew up moving around the States every couple of years, bouncing from one version of suburbia to another. With the exception of Atlanta, we tended to live on the outskirts of smaller cities: Cincinnati, Chesapeake, Fort…
Whenever I travel to new cities, I tend to seek out certain constants. The landmarks cities are known for aren’t necessarily my sightseeing priorities. As a traveler who daydreams about living almost everywhere I go, I prefer sussing out the local vibe. I look…
Cable Beach is among Australia’s most iconic beaches. Here in Broome, backpackers love to refer to it as one of the world’s top-ranked beaches. They’re not wrong: last year, TripAdvisor included it on its annual list of the world’s best beaches. With all of…
I’m finally moving on. Melbourne’s been nothing short of incredible to live in, and I know I’ll always look back on St. Kilda in particular as one of the coolest neighborhoods I’ve ever called home. Still, it’s time to leave. In a country as…
If there’s one thing you should know about my trip to Australia so far, it’s this: I love Melbourne. So much so that I stuck around for over a month longer than I’d planned, suffering both increasing cold (winter is decidedly not my thing) and diminishing…