There's No Place Like Oz

Re-entry and Reverse Culture Shock

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. -Freya Stark- It’s been two months since my plane touched down on the east coast of the USA and I officially returned home after living in Australia for a year. Perhaps more than any other two-month period of my life, […]

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Australia Roadtrip: Western Australia

In 2006, my youngest sister and I popped into the pizza shop beside our hostel in Sydney to get a quick take away dinner. A friendly 20-something heard our American accents and quickly struck up a typical traveler’s conversation with us. “What, you’re only here for three weeks?! Man, you gotta make it to WA […]

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Quick Guide: How to Survive the Nullarbor

There were a lot of things I’d read about before my arrival in Australia, but the Nullarbor Plain was not one of them. Even after living in the country for eight months, no one had ever breathed a word of the nearly treeless landscape to me. Then, just a week before Adam and I planned […]

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Heather and Laura go to Washington

In the travel blogging community, it’s common — or inevitable really — to develop strong relationships with friends across the globe. Many of these friendships are between people who have never met in person but whose shared interests and passions create a bond that’s undeniable. When I started this blog and the @noplacelikeoz Twitter account […]

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Australia Roadtrip: South Australia’s beautiful beaches, gorgeous skies, and charming towns

Sometimes when you travel, you enjoy the journey so much that you take in every moment, focusing completely on the present. As beautiful as the scenery is, you compose and commit the snapshots to memory instead of using a camera. While you normally scribble keywords and phrases to jog your mind about what you experienced […]

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