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Caitlin Go
Dec 125 min read
Week 52: The final flight
This is it. 365 days later, we are back on New Zealand soil. Just in time before our travel insurance lapses. We finished our trip in...
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Caitlin Go
Nov 308 min read
Week 50 & 51: Komorebi
"komorebi” - a word to describe the dappled sunlight that filters through the leaves. We knew in April that we would return to Japan, and...
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Caitlin Go
Nov 1811 min read
Week 48 & 49: El Día de los Muertos
We arrived in Mexico City with a week to go until el día de los muertos. The day of the dead. Back in a Spanish speaking country, Jerry...
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Caitlin Go
Nov 105 min read
Week 46 & 47: Leaf peepers
For the second part of our US adventures, we headed to the Northeast. Cue Gilmore Girls (I only now understand the reference, as Jerry...
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Caitlin Go
Nov 66 min read
Week 43, 44, 45: Back in the big city
We arrived at Chicago O-Hare at a gate that was approximately 10,000km away from anything else. While we had a big walk ahead of...
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Caitlin Go
Oct 2410 min read
Week 41 & 42: Deepest Darkest Peru, Part 3
Our final day in Cusco proved more eventful than we planned. I will spare you the gruesome details, but an upset stomach that developed...
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Caitlin Go
Oct 213 min read
Week 39 & 40: Deepest Darkest Peru, Part 2
Cusco. Once the capital of the Incan Empire, now a bustling city spread over the surrounding hills. Many people had recommended Cusco as...
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Caitlin Go
Sep 306 min read
Week 38: Deepest Darkest Peru, Part 1
This past month, we have been far too busy to write. We’ve journeyed from the islands of Lake Titicaca, to the peaks of the Andes, to...
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Caitlin Go
Aug 2514 min read
Week 36 & 37: Breathless in Bolivia
In the past three weeks, we have ventured into the Spanish speaking world. In Jerry’s mind, this should be no problem, since I “speak...
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Caitlin Go
Aug 1210 min read
Week 34 & 35: Islands and Highlands
Jonny’s hospital appointment earlier in the week found no further damage to his broken foot. When he asked if he should keep doing what...
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Caitlin Go
Jul 287 min read
Week 32 & 33: Re-united Kingdom (a tale of visiting kiwis in the UK)
London was the first overseas city that Jerry and I travelled to, fresh faced at age 21. Last time we were here, it was mid-November, so...
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Caitlin Go
Jul 128 min read
Week 30 & 31: Leaving the Balkans
It is time. We have reached the end of our early Euro summer, which has worked out more beautifully than we could have imagined. We spent...
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Caitlin Go
Jun 247 min read
Week 28 & 29: Road tripping in Montenegro
Montenegro is a small country on the Adriatic Coast, nestled between Croatia and Albania, and it is where we explored over the past two...
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Caitlin Go
Jun 1010 min read
Week 26 & 27: Our eftpos machine is broken
The past two weeks have seen us traverse from the Albanian riviera down south, up to the Albanian alps in the north. We didn’t quite know...
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Caitlin Go
May 267 min read
Week 23, 24, 25: Wonders of the Ancient World
Tried to figure out how many weeks this blog covered, and I am SHOCKED that it has been three weeks since the last blog. We have done so...
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Caitlin Go
May 89 min read
Week 22: Away with the fairy chimneys
It has been such a wonderful week, and I am finally back on a train (a.k.a my absolute favourite time to write), so I decided I’d sneak...
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Caitlin Go
May 28 min read
Week 20 & 21: On the westward wind
Our past two weeks have been travelling west, first to Singapore, and then on to Türkiye. The last time I was in Singapore was 2015. My...
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Caitlin Go
Apr 1510 min read
Week 17, 18, 19: Ichi-go, ichi-e
Hello from the sky! As I write this, we are currently in the air on Singapore Airlines, leaving Japan. I am drinking a Singapore Sling,...
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Caitlin Go
Mar 2411 min read
Week 14, 15, 16: Introducing Janina, our new series regular
Excuse my lateness with the latest blog post. We have been busy! When I said we were ready for a quicker pace, I must have meant it. I’m...
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Caitlin Go
Mar 912 min read
Planning a year long trip as Type A people: How did we do it?
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