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My Burmese daze

January 26, 2012

There is so much that I regret about my brief time in Burma.

My flatmate and BFF (you might remember her from such posts as Lost in a high place) is all loved up with a cotton farmer. So the day before New Year’s Eve, we got in the car and made the seven hour drive north west from Sydney to his farm.

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Things I did in Peru

December 23, 2011 Peru

From almost the moment I crossed the border and wound up in the seaside town of Mancora on the country’s north coast, Peru was my favourite Latin American country so far (at least until I arrived in Bolivia a month later). The Pan American highway runs right through Mancora. Trucks steam through town and throw [...]

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Has travel changed me?

December 10, 2011 Bolivia

‘So has it changed you? Travelling for so long?’ I was at the bus station in sky-high Potosi, Bolivia. It was about a month before I was due to return to Australia. A fellow traveller, who I’d just met in the taxi to the bus station, and I, were waiting in line to purchase snacks [...]

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The otherworldly landscapes of Bolivia

October 25, 2011 Bolivia

Hola! No, I am not lost in the Andes and nor have I found myself in hospital in a fourth country after having been mauled by a savage pack of South American stray dogs (though not for a lack of trying on their part). Nope, I’m in Sydney, doing my best to settle into life [...]

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On ziplining and not holding the bags

September 17, 2011 Adventure

My career as an adrenaline junkie began as a 3 year old, when I threw myself off a living room cabinet at least twice as high as I was.

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An update from Bolivia

September 12, 2011 Bolivia

So here I am in La Paz, Bolivia after nearly a month in Peru, enjoying the sunshine and wondering why it is that I’m feeling so breathless here, despite having spent the last several weeks at not much lower altitudes.

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