A digital nomad family on a gap year travel adventure
This is part two of our New Zealand planning series. You can read the first part of the series here. OUR NORTH ISLAND ITINERARY: WELLINGTON – ROTORUA – COROMANDEL To plan out our North Island itinerary, we started by identifying the …
Planning how to approach New Zealand was a challenge for us, but we do have a few tips to make travel planning easier for you (or you could just replicate our route with some tweaks). Our Approach Some of our friends highly …
We spent one week split between the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast (at two Airbnbs in Noosa Heads and Coolangatta, specifically). While we enjoyed elements of both towns, for us Noosa Heads was a vastly superior base for our exploration and was a more …
In the month of February, we spent time in two separate locations: Noosa Heads and Palm Cove, both in Queensland, Australia. As such, our transportation costs for this month came down significantly since we only had one domestic flight (from Cairns to Brisbane) to pay …
We spent one month exploring the North Queensland area of Australia from our home base in Palm Cove. While we could probably have managed to do everything that we wanted to do in the area within a week or so, we planned an extended stay …
When we first arrived in Australia, coming off of one month in Thailand and five months in Southeast Asia, we were immediately struck by how expensive everything here seemed. Australia is significantly more expensive than Southeast Asia for most of the things tourists need: transportation, …
In the month of January, we spent time in three separate locations (Phuket, Thailand and Sydney and Palm Cove in Australia) and so we incurred some additional transportation expenses as well as the increased cost of living in Australia, which we attempted to mitigate by …
Pretty much all trips to the Great Barrier Reef will require you to take an organized tour. We chose a tour run by Big Cat Reef Cruises out of Cairns, which took us on a cruise to a remote island in the inner reef for …
We spent most of our time in Sydney outdoors exploring this beautiful city — we were blessed with some fantastic weather. We were floored by this town and how much there was for us to do. Here are our top 5 things to do with …
The Airbnb we chose for our two-week stay in Sydney was located mid-way between Coogee Beach and Randwick, situated high up on a hill with good views out over Coogee Beach, especially from the house’s front balcony. This location provided good access to the city …