Why Perth Deserves a Spot on Your Travel List When I turned 35, I made a deal with myself: no more saving the good stuff for someday. The trip I’d been pinning photos of for four years finally had a departure date — and that destination was Perth, Western Australia. I’d scrolled past its white-sand … Read more
My boss handed me a bonus check and said “invest it wisely.” I invested it in a round-trip ticket and two weeks somewhere I’d been dreaming about since a geography class in eighth grade — Australia’s Red Centre, where the earth turns a shade of burnt orange that no photograph ever quite captures. Standing beneath … Read more
My passport sat blank in a drawer for two years after I got it — I kept saying “soon” until a friend called me out at dinner, and we booked flights to Australia that night; I barely slept. Nothing quite prepared me for the moment the plane touched down and I stepped into the raw, … Read more
We eloped on a Tuesday with three friends and a bottle of champagne, telling ourselves the real trip would come later. “Later” arrived 18 months after our wedding when we finally stopped waiting for the perfect time and booked one-way flights to the heart of Australia’s Red Centre. Standing beneath that impossibly wide outback sky, … Read more
