As great as certain tourist attractions and landmarks can be, there’s always a level of expectation surrounding them. If the attraction surpasses your expectations, your experience is guaranteed to be positive. As you’ve probably established over the past few months, we’ve had many of these experiences. However unfortunately as travelers, [...]
In November 2011, my 89-year-old grandmother passed away peacefully in her sleep in Melbourne, Australia after a long battle with illness. I desperately wanted to attend her funeral the following week but unfortunately our circumstances, being in Amsterdam at the time, made that impossible. Losing a loved one while traveling [...]
We’ve spent over fifty percent of the last three months sleeping in hotel rooms and our experiences have ranged from poor to excellent. We admit that the two of us can be pretty fussy but none of the hotels we’ve stayed in thus far would be a clear 10 out of [...]
Today marks exactly one year since Don’t Ever Look Back first made it onto the Internet with a post explaining why the two of us were choosing long-term travel. Despite a few doubts in the lead-up to our trip, we stuck with our decision and let us tell you this. [...]
A little while ago we watched Yes Man, the 2008 comedy film starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel. The premise of the film is that Carrey’s character Carl vows to answer “Yes!” to every opportunity, request or invitation that presents itself. Because it’s a comedy, his affirmative answer to every [...]
You hear the phrase “it’s a small world” thrown around a lot. From the experiences we’ve had of seeing friends and acquaintances in the places you least expect, it’s gives you a pretty surreal feeling when you have one of these moments – a feeling that is enhanced the further [...]
Amy & Kieron are an Australian couple sharing their travel adventures from around the world.
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7 Ways To Survive When You’re Not Traveling
Although I’m thoroughly enjoying the fresh challenges of working full-time and it’s great to be earning money again, the realization that we’re not going to be traveling in the next few months is really starting to set in and it sucks. This was made even more difficult earlier in the [...]
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