Travel was never on the top of my to-do list, it was always hovering somewhere on the "I'll get to it one day" list (also coined the "might as well do if there's nothing good on TV" list) along with getting my learners license again, actually reading the fine prints of my work contract, and throwing away the punch mix from NYE. Sure there were the numerous stays in Byron and parental-supervised trips to Asia, but it wasn't until one cold and gloomy June lunch break with my soon-to-be traveling companion Amalia in our favourite pub The Wynyard that we shared an epiphany; a carpe diem moment of clarity -the world is so much more than Sydney. Okay of course I've always known this, but to use the Star Wars vernacular -I had never felt "the
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