Waking Up in Oz

A little over a year ago, I had both the best and worst travel experience of my life. I’d been pretty fortunate in my travels, never lost a bag, never had too much of a delay, and never missed a flight (knocking on a big ass piece of wood right now). My awesome luck ran [...]

I don’t know the first thing about National Rugby League or Aussie Rules Football. I tried reading up on the rules, but I didn’t learn a damn thing…I am completely distracted by the gorgeous players. My favorite team will be based solely on which one has the best looking players. These guys look like movie [...]

I just introduced Mandi to Flight of the Conchords. The show was recently nominated for a bunch of Emmys, so it’s only right of me to pay tribute to the best thing to come out of New Zealand.  They’re always picking on the Aussies…
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On their website they have a section on the differences between Aussies [...]

I’m telling myself it’s OK I find this awesome since the guy didn’t die:
A man in Western Australia was engulfed in flames when police officers fired a Taser stun gun at him.

I love, love, love learning Aussie slang.  I know once I get there I’ll be frustrated when I feel like everyone’s speaking a different language, but for now I get a kick out of it. I have a grasp on a lot (or should I say heaps) of the most common slang words. Here’s a [...]

Saying I’m obsessed with gathering information is an understatement. I’ve Googled my face off searching for all things Australian.  Of all the research I’ve done, some of the best insight has come from stumbling across the blogs of other Americans living in Australia. Reading about the everyday lifestyle from an American perspective has been tremendously [...]

It’s been drilled in my brain by this book I just read for Americans relocating to Oz that bragging about yourself in Australia is kind of frowned upon, so I gotta get some good old fashioned American bragging out of my system… I’M GOING TO FIJI AND I HOPE YOU’RE JEALOUS!!!!
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The overlooked part of my [...]

After not using a car the entire time I was in San Francisco, I’m really looking forward to relying on public transportation in Sydney. But lately I’ve been thinking about scenarios where I’m going to need a car, especially when I first get there. Once I settle into an apartment the initial huge trip to [...]

I had a fantastic 4th of July weekend in San Francisco, despite not seeing any fireworks (!!!) or eating any In N Out burger (!!!).  We had a BBQ at my brother’s house on the 4th so I missed out on seeing any fireworks extravaganzas and I was too busy eating EVERYTHING ELSE in the [...]

Fun Fact: Searching Google for “sydney neighborhoods hobo” brings my site up as #1. My apologies to the person who searched that and found me, although I’m pretty curious what you were trying to find. Either I use the word hobo too much (I think the current count is 6.. make that 7, I’m throwing [...]