American Adventures
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Aussie Expats Update – Writing, Revising and Rehab: Just Another Week!
The end of another week! It always feels like a bit of a shock to reach Friday again. Of course, since I’m on uni break, the time seems to be flying past… And, of course, I’m not getting anywhere near as much done as I wanted to. Every day seems to be jam-packed (though I’ll confess that I’ve managed to find some time for a few naps here and there, in the interests of somehow continuing to be a nice person), and then I reach the end of it and realise that there are things I wanted to get to that I didn’t. The best thing to do is to…
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Aussie Expats Update – Frolicking, Food (Poisoning), and Fredericksburg: A Week in DC!
Happy Friday from Washington DC! It’s been a strange and somewhat tumultuous week in the nation’s capital, but I’ve finally sat myself down to chronicle our triumphs and woes! We arrived Saturday evening after two flights—neither of which saw us seated next to one another, a state of affairs I didn’t particularly enjoy, but James may have, seeing as he got a rest from my shenanigans!—and a lamentable lack of delicious airport snacks. I was hanging out for some Cinnabon, having promised to illicitly introduce Zac and Lauren to their tasty treats, but we didn’t see any… still, I have high hopes for the return journey! Despite being a self-confessed…
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Aussie Expats Update – I’m on Uni Break!
HAPPY FRIDAY WORLD! (It’s a holiday here, hence the energetic greeting). I have finally pulled myself together and written an update about our lives in recent times! To be fair, I did do one a month ago… And have since been persuading myself that nothing enough had happened for me to warrant me putting the energy into writing another, which isn’t a hard thing to do when your days have felt as though they are being measured in ‘words to write’ for university assignments. That being said, I am now finished with uni for Trimester 1! I’ve written and submitted 5000 words in the past week (comprising two exams and…
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Aussie Expats Update – Road Trip? COMPLETE!
Happy Monday everyone! I decided late last week that since we’d be getting home over the weekend (and I had a 2000 word essay to write) I would delay the final road trip blog post until after we finished. And thus, we arrived back into Lawton yesterday afternoon with 9100 miles total on the car (14,560 km: a third of the way around the earth!), a crack in our damn windscreen (more on that later) and a huge sense of relief because there’ll be no more driving for a while. On to the recap then, and a quick warning that we’ve crammed a lot into the past 10 days: be prepared…
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Aussie Expats Update – Five Weeks Into the Roadtrip!
Happy St Patrick’s Day everybody! I’m finding it a bit challenging to write a blog post right now, because my whole head feels as though it’s filled with rocks… Wading my way through neck-deep Structuralism in my Literary Theory subject at uni has put me firmly in struggletown, and I have some mild regret about choosing this particular subject. Regardless, we are currently motoring our way down the interstate and leaving Utah behind as we head towards Bryce Canyon to see some rocks! I hope everyone enjoyed James’s excellent post last week: I don’t think it was until after he had finished the long slog that he realised just how…
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Aussie Expats Update – Our Roadtrip, Part 4 – Guest update: The other half (James because Ana said you wouldn’t be sure who it was if I left it at that)
Unfortunately, the beautiful woman who normally regales you with weekly tales of adventure currently has her head buried in Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’ so for this weeks update you get the other, sometimes better sometimes worse, half. I give you prior warning, it is unlikely that I will provide an overview to match those prior, but nevertheless I shall do my very best and make no apologies for any tangents experienced. And so we begin this weeks episode on the road to Knoxville, TN. Proud to tick another state of the list we passed into Tennessee uneventfully. That is until we realised we were passing through Chattanooga and had the…
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Aussie Expats Update – Part 3 of our Roadtrip
Woooop, the end of week 3! Wow, are we getting around a heap and seeing a lot: we’re 21 days and 4000 miles (6400 km) into the road trip to end all road trips (seriously, after this, we’re pretty sure we’ll never really want to drive again), and are currently on our way to Knoxville. So, on to the recap! Luckily for us, our Day 14 trip from Savannah to Charleston wasn’t too long (just a little under 2 hours), which meant we had some time to do a bit of training in the morning: my frog hops and transition into handstands are really coming along. [A weird thing to be excited about,…
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Aussie Expats Update – Our Big Southern USA Roadtrip, Part 2!
We’re back again for the week 2 update of our epic US road trip! We arrived in the Keys last Friday via Key Largo, where we impulsively decided to book in for a jetskiing adventure on Saturday and followed it up with feasting on an incredible lunch of steak sandwich and fish and chips. If you haven’t had fish for eight months—because how the hell can you trust ‘fresh’ fish in landlocked and rustic Oklahoma?—then believe me when I say, you’re happy to have fish. And this Mahi Mahi was juicy and delicious (and also deep-fried). We gorged ourselves and then gorged a little more with some Key Lime pie…
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Aussie Expats Update – The First Road Trip Report!
Hello from Florida everyone! Well, we’re on Day 7 of our amazing trip, and it’s been a bit of a whirlwind so far. Despite a less-than auspicious beginning on Saturday—whe the alarm clock failed to wake us up at 0400—we managed to be on the road by 8 am with our borrowed tent in tow (as, despite ordering our new one 3 weeks prior, it still hadn’t arrived). But, we got out butts on the road, and drove through to Dallas for an Arby’s lunch-stop before kicking on to Grand Gulf Military Park (MS). The ranger had left the gate unlocked for us after we’d called ahead earlier in the day,…
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Aussie Expats Update: A Ball, Cookies, Hiking and General Adventures!
Holy schmolys people. What a doozy of a week and what a lot to cover off on, plus, stacks of pictures (you can thank me later). As I mentioned in our last update, we had the St Barbara’s Day Ball for James’s Brigade on Friday night. Of course, this necessitated an early slammer of a gym session for the day, some bright red toenail polish, a couple of cheeky G&Ts, and a whole bunch of cheesecake. Despite my promises not to eat as many pieces of cake as last time, I think I ate more (thereby, one might argue, actually keeping my promise. Semantics). I would like, however, to point…
