Katie Hemmons

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A young beach happy woman from Canada who is here for all of the Aus sights! Follow me as I tentatively follow some loose plans in some awesome places - Sydney, Melbourne, Great Ocean Road, National Parks, New Zealand, Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, Darwin, Indo, and hopefully some neat local haunts us foreigners wouldnt have a clue about.



Travel Blog Posts


Just An Overdue Update

Published: February 15th 2013Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » Central
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February 15th 2013

I always remember my grade 5 teacher, Mrs.Kolterman, tell me that a proper sentence should never start with “and”. Which is exactly what I was about to do. So I sit here on yet another bed in yet another hostel FINALLY successful with this website, for 2 weeks it has been inaccessible! Enough with the grammar and troubles, let’s get down to what I have been doing for the past few weeks. Well go back to Sydney now, where I went to my first co-ed washroom and had an adventure out to the Blue Mountains, which surprised me. I thought ''I know a thing or two about mountains'', and yes I do. But these were of a different sort and quite beautiful all the same, with only two nights and one full day I spent hours ... read more



The First Few Days

Published: January 18th 2013Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney
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January 18th 2013

Just a few blurbs about my trip so far: Defenestration: The act of throwing somebody out of a window The airline food was good, but better when it was over. One of the attendants has sad eyes, I hope there is somebody in her life to cheer her up I got OCD on the solitaire offered on my computer screen, I just HAD to get the high score and name it "Canada", Im sure somebody titled "China" will beat me by at least double ... I dont like that we are flying over the pacific Ive still got the small town politeness going on and everybody thinks im a creep Ive had seafood for both of my meals today My brain is saying what the fuck is the sun still doing out And my stomach thinks ... read more






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