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Week Thirteen: Kicking off Queensland with the Gals
It’s been a largely mellow week finishing out Sydney and starting off Queensland. Lots of exercise in the mornings, 80% of meals have come from the grocery store, and a mixture of wandering around different towns and beaches. It’s the closest I’ve felt to having a routine in the past…
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Weeks Eleven and Twelve: Melbourne, Sydney and Kosciuszko
Australia is off to a great start. I’ve really enjoyed the cities here, and I feel so fortunate to have gotten a backyard tour of Sydney and Australia mountains from Fin. The formal activities have been more limited outside of my backpacking trip, and that’s been a nice opportunity to…
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Week Ten: From Bali to Singapore
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all! I was hoping to have this out a bit before the new year, but time got the better of me this week. It’s officially 2025 and I’m excited about it. 2024 was a year for the books, and I’m looking…
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My 2024 Wrapped
Exactly one year ago today, my girlfriend of almost four years and I broke up. Not exactly the ending to 2023 I’d anticipated. I entered 2024 in a strange space. My mind was busy processing, grieving, and looking for new opportunities. In many ways, I felt I had the most…
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Week Nine: Scuba Diving Nusa Penida and Relaxing in Bali
My first week in Bali started off with a couple full days on the island of Nusa Penida before I met up with Amy and Becca (two of my friends from England) in the beach town of Uluwatu and prioritized relaxing and socializing over heavy sightseeing & activities. Rain prevented…
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Bullet Point Reflections
I was digging through old writing drafts, and I found one that I enjoyed re-reading. It was simply a series of independent short thoughts that had been floating around my mind that I hadn’t had time to deep dive on and still wanted to get down. One of my temptations…
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Week Eight: My Sole Week in Malaysia
A week in Malaysia was just enough to give me a taste and leaving me wanting more. Langkawi was a fun island to explore. Big enough to not feel limiting but small enough to get around anywhere I wanted quite easily. The street food was top notch, and wildly cheap.…
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Week Seven: The Thai Islands Continued
Thailand ended on some good notes. Good food, good people, some of my favorite spontaneous conversations I’ve had, and mostly relaxed activities outside of one day diving on Koh Lanta. Before I started my trip, I got connected with Lindsay, a friend of a friend from the States who’s been…
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Week Six: Scuba Diving and the Thai Islands
Week six was a good one. I spent nearly all week scuba diving, eating food, hanging out with friends and sleeping on Koh Tao. The days were long, and I was wiped. It was wet. Like, really wet. It rained hard pretty much every day, for at least half the…
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Diving into Scuba: My Experience on Koh Tao
I’ve always been curious about scuba diving but have never had a good opportunity to try it out. Koh Tao is known as one of the best places in the world to dive for the first time. It’s quite cheap compared to other places and there are a good variety…