By the week of June 1st, we’d been living in Karama for two weeks already. We’d gotten used to the bus schedule, our new jobs, and our new home. Although, one thing hadn’t been quite resolved yet… laundry. We didn’t have a washing machine in the house, and well, Hillary and I weren’t quite that adept at washing by hand. We gave it the ol’ college try, but for a full week’s worth of clothes, it wasn’t quite going to work out. So we had to find the closest laundromat. Turns out, there aren’t too many around. Every hostel we had previously stayed at had their own, so laundry never weighed too heavily on our minds. Eventually, we found one in Nightcliff (one of the bigger neighbourhoods around Darwin). In fact, it was right around the
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