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Ruby -- 21 -- Australia 🌻 Drifting through reality

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Just a travel blog post, finally (coming out of hibernation)

Preface

I want to start by saying that I haven’t written on this blog since my Canada day’s a couple of years ago and I’m over two months deep into a trip around Europe and that now is probably a really obscure time to start chronically this journey and I honestly don’t know how much I will even write but I’m feeling it so I’m just going to go with it. However, this trip has been one of chapters,…

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The Homecoming

Homecoming: an instance of returning home. Could it be so simple as returning home after a long day at work, after a week away, a weekend visit to the town you grew up in? Or could it be as seemingly dramatic as the return home after 6 months away on the other side of the world? This was my homecoming. Something I’d been imagining for months, even on my best most exciting days abroad, something…

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Endings

Things end for many reasons and in many ways. Sometimes things just fizzle out, sometimes the ending is abrupt or expected, other times it completely hits you out of left field. Sometimes its your choice and sometimes others or circumstance makes the decision for you. Nothing lasts forever, or so they say, and in most cases this is known to be true. When the time comes, it comes; sometimes the…

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A Love Letter to the Rocky Mountains

A Love Letter to the Rocky Mountains

How can you describe something you can only feel? Something that no matter how many times you see it your throat still closes up and your heart feels heavy with emotion. Each new time is just as completely and utterly awe-striking as the first and it will always be because sometimes there is just nothing like it. I’m not an overly spiritual person but there’s something about the Rocky Mountains,…

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Roadtripping through the Maritimes of Atlantic Canada

Roadtripping through the Maritimes of Atlantic Canada

It’s 10 o’clock at night and we’ve been driving all day. We decided to power on through at 7pm and do another 4 hours to get to the east coast of New Brunswick, Canada. It’s finally getting dark by 7 over this side, a stark contrast to the 11pm sunsets of only a month ago or so. We’ve ended up on some back road to hell tunneled in by trees illuminated only by the headlights. There’s no other…

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The Bright Lights of New York City and Toronto

The Bright Lights of New York City and Toronto

Well it’s my last night in New York City, what a busy couple of weeks its been since I last wrote. I am well and truly back in the swing of travelling again and my time in this amazing, crazy city has been so so good! I’ve seen and done a LOT, everything I wanted to do and more; and whilst the things to do in this place are endless and I’m sure I could have at least another week here I’m feeling…

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Thoughts at 39000ft heading east

Thoughts at 39000ft heading east

I’m sitting on a plane flying east over Canada. The ground below me is a patchwork of fields – green, gold and brown broken only by a generous dispersing of lakes true to Canadian style (though not the glacial type I’ve become accustomed to from my time in the mountains). Being back in the air and being back on my own, my time confined to Panorama now seems both significant and fleeting. In a way…

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Overthinking, Realisations, and One Week Left in Panorama

Overthinking, Realisations, and One Week Left in Panorama

Subconsciously my brain is a place that is not always my greatest friend. It likes to overthink and pull apart every little piece of a plan, a thought, my own or somebody else’s actions apart. It likes control and has high standards, and doesn’t like to make a choice until it has thought about or experienced every available option and is absolutely positive it has chosen the best option because…

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Miss You

There’s so much I want to do. There’s so much I want to see on this trip. I feel like I’ve been waiting and saving my whole life for right now and I feel like I can’t go home until I’ve checked all these countries off my extensive list. Whether this is actually feasible or at all in my means I’m not sure just yet. I just feel that once I’m home it may not be all that easy to just leave again,…

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Banff & Lake Louise Daytrip

Banff & Lake Louise Daytrip

What made me most want to come to Canada were the images and scenes, the color schemes and landscapes that I saw of Banff and the surrounding area. Today I got to see them for myself and man was I not dissapointed. I had hoped the pictures I’d spent hours scouring through on the internet were true to life, but the blues of the lakes seemed too good to be true – but they are just as magic in…

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Early days, reflection and thoughts of home

Early days, reflection and thoughts of home

Living in a place feels different than visiting a place. When you visit a new country, when you’re travelling through somewhere distant and unfamiliar its exciting and busy and you’ve got so much to squeeze into however long you’ve allotted for that one place. You’re so busy you don’t have time to relax or think about much else other then what you’re doing. Everyday is filled with new things and…

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My first week abroad - 8 days in Vancouver, beautiful British Columbia

My first week abroad – 8 days in Vancouver, beautiful British Columbia

How good is travelling? All that anxiety and fear (granted it’s only been 6 days and I’m sure homesickness will kick in later down the track) seems a little unwarranted now in hindsight. Sure the plane ride is a bit of bummer, boxed in for 14 hours next to strangers unable to sleep, and the jet lag is a bit of a struggle, but otherwise, what fun! Hostels are much less daunting than I had…

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End times: thoughts about departing 

What a bittersweet thing it is in the days before your departure. I fly out tomorrow but I can hardly fathom it. Due to my life being spread across about 400km I was away seeing the people I’ll miss the most when I’m gone, home for two days and now I’m back on the road. I’m sad about leaving yet for a while now its felt like my brain has been deploying some sort of defense mechanism that’s making…

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Canada Travel Plans

I realised that thus far I’ve been writing vaguely about my imminent plans of going overseas and how I feel about it, and that I haven’t really shared what I’m actually doing. And after months of planning and dreaming and the time coming closer thought it was about time! After seeing pictures in a friend’s Instagram feed I fell in love with the idea of Canada and the rockies. I started…

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One month to go

Im standing at a precipice, teetering on the edge, feet still on solid ground, toes edging over the cliff face. One small movement, one stumble or sway and the ground under me is lost and the only way is down. Would it hurt to fall, to drop into this unknown chasm? Would I be lost to the fall, never able to return to where I was before? Would I reach and cling and desperately grab at any root or…

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Limbo

Limbo – “an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place”. Although they normally refer to it as some theological state, the border of heaven and hell. Translating that to my current situation, I don’t think theres any good way to look at it, either I’m trading in my heaven thinking the grass is greener, or my life now needs some serious improvement. And I’d like to think that neither of…

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