One of the biggest surprises of our extended travels is how hard it is to find decent Internet. Travel is supposed to be one of the best perks to both working online and being self-employed, but it’s not much good if you’re unable to connect to begin with. To top it all off, it’s been…
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We officially passed the halfway mark of our trip awhile back, and it whooshed by uneventfully somewhere between train platforms and market shopping trips. It’s now the downhill stage, where we see a faint pinhole of the end in sight, when we start listing the things we want to make sure and do as a…
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Cliché, I know. So, so typical to think of New Zealand this way. Everyone loves En-Zed. But I can’t help it—Kyle and I both left this small, rather unassuming country way out there kinda by itself in the Pacific, knowing we’ll be back at some point. It’s been the one place that was genuinely hard…
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It’s the number one question we get asked about our travels: how can we afford to do it? And it’s the post I’ve hesitated to write the most, simply because our experience is unique and not universally replicable for all families. But that’s the case with everyone, isn’t it? How we saved up for this…
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You heard it from a kids’ perspective, and it’s true—Queensland is really pretty incredible. One of a kind, really, seeing as it’s the only place in the world with two World Heritage Sites side-by-side: the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest (the oldest rainforest in the world). I recently wrote on the Tourism Queensland…
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