Travel Journal
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When I did the Bolaven Plateau motorbike loop in southern Laos, I went searching for the many awe-inspiring waterfalls which are one of the main attractions for people doing the loop. While seeking out one of them, called Tad E Tu, I paid a local woman to watch my motorbike (theft is extremely common) and…
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Before I moved to New Zealand, I knew that one of my main priorities was going to be finding some of the best hikes to do. Through people I met in Colorado who had been to New Zealand before, I heard of this thing called the “Great Walks” – which I later learned more about…
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Moving to New Zealand and doing a Working Holiday Visa was a bucket list item for a long time. Only did we (my partner, Niko, and I) move to Queenstown after the recommendation from so many people in Colorado. After doing some research and finding out that Queenstown was surrounded by mountains, had 4 ski…
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This is from a very personal and emotional essay I wrote back in the fall of 2020, a few months after the COVID-19 pandemic forced me to end a long time travel dream of mine and pushed me to move to Colorado: A few days after my 28th birthday in March of 2020, I sat…
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After completing our awesome first New Zealand road trip, we decided to stay in Queenstown for the winter and work with our Working Holiday Visas (WHV). Before we came to Queenstown, we were so so excited to see life in a new ski town (apart from our former life living in Steamboat Springs, Colorado). We…
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During our first two weeks in New Zealand, we road tripped all around the North and South Islands of the country. This gave us a fantastic opportunity to see a lot of the country in a short amount of time. Below I outline where we stopped on our first New Zealand road trip and what…
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New Zealand! So many years I have dreamed of coming here. My partner and I just arrived to stay here on a year-long Working Holiday Visa (WHV) to continue our ski town lifestyle in a new country. A WHV allows young people from all over the world to come live in New Zealand for a…
