Don’t get me wrong – I, like every other human with a pulse, get those all too familiar pangs of post holiday blues when returning home from an epic adventure. This week has been no different. Monday morning I woke, in my bedroom, at my parent’s house in Perth, and I longed for that delicious […]
1 – You’re dying to develop your llama//alpaca differentiation skills. I don’t mean to brag but I can now identify a llama or alpaca, at a distance, in lightening speed. CV get ready – my skills section is gettin’ an update. 2 – You want to restore your faith in humanity and the good in people. […]
I knew this trip was to be a big one, the life changer, the life affirming, the life giver, and I knew that I would come back changed in some way … but I had no idea of the extent to which this trip would peel back my layers and leave me (happily) raw, […]
On 30th April – eleven nervous little novice hikers left the big city (read: Ollytaytambo, well it’s sort of big) bound for the adventure of their lives. Eight of us had signed up for the classic 4 day Inca trail, and three for the growingly popular 3 day Lares trail. Today’s post covers the ins […]
Peru, like Bolivia, felt like a big ole bag of uncertainty when we approached this leg of the trip. I sat, in complete overwhelm & maybe even a trickle of fear (possibly influenced also by it being the evening before death road) during our welcome orientation with our new Peruvian guide, terrified of what was […]
Cryptic title hey? I realised that all of our post ride celebrations were solely focused on our success & our conquering of the world’s most dangerous road – which, yeppp, is amazing and well worth celebrating (because, life) but I realised that there were certainly parts of me that didn’t survive the treacherous journey […]
When it came to planning my South American adventure – there were a few places that were absolute definites, cementing their place in the itinerary early, and then there were some that sort of just fell into place. Bolivia was a country that I didn’t know too much about, that I was very close to […]
This thought struck me whilst in midst of travel induced physical anomalies and needs me to start with somewhat of a confession. Traveling Emily ain’t so pretty & as I type this I’m 99% sure that I have contracted either a jungle disease or have been the victim of a voodoo spell that has caused […]
Holá blessers. This post is being brought to you courtesy of terrible South American wifi, a plush hotel bed and by a writer powered by the BEST chocolate in Bolivia (a little chocolatier in Sucre called ‘Parati’). You are welcome friends. So I’ve just hit the three week mark of my break up inspired, midlife […]
I write to heal, write to share, write to connect, write to reflect, write to plan, write to inspire, write to be inspired, write to express … I’m a writer. As of tomorrow, I will be South America bound for my first (ever) solo travel adventure. The past few months have seen me sea-saw between ‘holy frikkin […]