Washington has certainly ignited my passion for hiking. While I’ve always enjoyed an outdoors lifestyle, most of my weekends in Newcastle were spent bikini clad and beachside rather than tackling switchbacks in my rainproof jacket and hiking boots. My new ‘home state’ is not short on mountains, and over the past 14 months of living […]
Month: September 2016
Discovering San Francisco’s Mission District Street Art
Back in May, during our rad west coast road trip, my sister and I spent an evening exploring the streets and laneways of San Francisco’s Mission District. What we found was incredible: a huge outdoor art gallery winding through the neighbourhood. Spending time in The Mission reveals a story of the city that you won’t […]
My journey through America’s national parks
August 25th 2016 marked a very special date: the 100th birthday of the US National Parks Service. While national parks had existed for years prior – Yellowstone was the first national park in the world in 1872 – it wasn’t until 1916 that the National Parks Service was created to protect America’s most beautiful, fragile […]