Waking Up in Oz

An American Girl's Adventures in Australia

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Who needs electricity? It’s FIJI!

Posted by Kerry

We ended up booking a tour in Fiji with Awesome Adventures Fiji. We were planning on doing Contiki’s Fiji package, but turns out you can only book that in conjunction with another Contiki tour (i.e. one of their Aus or NZ tours).  Not to bash Contiki, because I couldn’t have been happier with them on [...]

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Terminal Entertainment

Posted by Kerry

I finally have my flights and Fiji accommodation booked! My flight out of Florida leaves at 5:49 a.m., kill me.  Mandi and I lucked out because even though we’re leaving from different cities, we both have layovers  in Atlanta and were able to coordinate the same flight from there to LA.
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Once we get to LAX, [...]

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How Can I Forget Fiji?

Posted by Kerry

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 [...]

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Happy Anniversary to me!

Posted by Kerry

A year ago today I arrived in Greece for a two-week whirlwind. Here’s a look back at some of the beautiful places I went…

The Parthenon

Mykonos

Santorini

Santorini Sunset

Ios

How to shower in Greece… one of these things is not like the other…

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Why Not?

Posted by Kerry

Yes, it is true. I really am moving to Australia for a year.
What’s surprised me is I’ve been met with zero resistance. Before I started telling people, I made a mental list of counterpoints for every reason someone could give me for why I shouldn’t do this. I’ve yet to justify my decision to anyone. [...]

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