wow what a time to be alive

well hey there, how have y'all been? i've been busy and making scary new life decisions. a friend of mine told me i should write a blog of all my adventures over the past few months so here goes. there have been some good times, some bad times, and some pretty average times.

i moved across the other side of australia. on a whim. i felt a call to be in a city that i used to hate and now i'm here and so far everything has been great. maybe i'll start off with telling you how i came to this decision. i don't know why i'm here yet but everything is slotting into place. hallelujah, He is good.

at the start of august i decided that i needed to leave mandurah. don't get me wrong, i loved the people and community i was apart of, but i needed to grow and i couldn't do that while still living there. (some other pretty crappy stuff happened which i may tell you about another day) so i started packing and sorting out my stuff. the original plan was that i would leave late december/early january but my dad had to be in melbourne early october so we decided the best plan was for me to drive over with him as co-pilot. saved them (and me) a plane ticket and a lot of money. by the time i had officially picked a departure date i had 6 weeks to organise my life and make sure that my car could get across the country.

i start by writing a list of things to do and then i write a list of people to see/tell. i think at this point, other than immediate family, maybe 3 people know the basics of my plan. i then start seeing people and telling them i'm leaving. it was a very emotional time but all my people were so supportive of my decision which i was very thankful for. 

at that point, i still hadn't decided where i was going to move to. i was going to move to either sydney or brisbane. neither of which made any sense as i knew 2 people in each city but that was it. for quite awhile i deliberated between the two and only really decided just before i left that i was going to move to brisbane. which was slightly ironic cause when i was much younger we visited brisbane and i vehemently declared that i "hate this city and i will never live here." welp, i've been here for a week now and it's been rather grand so far.  

i then quit my job, and left at the end of september with the intention of travelling for a month or so and then arriving in brisbane with the prospects of a new job. i vaguely knew where i wanted to live but that was about it. so i packed (majority) of my earthly belongings into my car and started across on this crazy adventure.

so that's it. my thought process and some of the reasons that i moved. i shall endeavour to slowly tell more of my month on the road and show you photos. and maybe explain a bit more on the why i moved so far away from my family.

pack a bag and go on an adventure

listening to this and this xx

year of the ultraviolet

hey hey hello, it's 2018. i started this here blog just over six years ago. yikes.

red bluff, kalbarri

time flies when you're living. (cause having fun hasn't been the constant over those six years)

i've definitely changed. matured and become a very different, and yet remarkably the same, person than i was when i was fourteen. not as angsty and not struggling to fit in with the world.

this isn't going to be one of those posts where i start telling you about all these issues i've been having. cause i can tell you at this very moment, these issues are keeping me up at night. but on to happier, healthier things!

five fingers reef, coral bay

recently, i went up as far north as coral bay. we had five days and to make the most of it we drove in the early morning and spent the afternoon relaxing (mostly...) 

we snorkelled in bill's bay, and five fingers reef in coral bay. the sea life there was magical (made me wish i had a go-pro so that i could've actually shot some footage), and we saw a real live turtle in the wild, which was possibly the highlight of the trip!

cliff head north

and in other, more, exciting news, i'm vegan! i've been vegan since the second week of november and have committed to being a vegan this entire year with a dear friend of mine. and here we are twenty-two days into the new year and it's going great. (and i've lost weight as well. nice bonus!)

i'll try and write a more detailed post on why i went vegan soon.

kiss kiss hug a dog

listening to this and this