2 days down...infinity to go

To start with here are some beauties I found courtesy of TopShop... Love love love the black pair - architectural inspired genius I must have them!

So it is two days since I last counted down to leaving this boring place I currently call home.

I do love Perth, there are so many great things about living here - great beaches, Mount Lawley, so many fab places to eat.

However as someone under the age of 30 I feel like there is a distinct lack of life choices available to me.


All my girlfriends are getting serious with love, property and careers and all that just makes me want to have a giant nap.

Maybe I am missing the 'settle down and make life plans' gene...I don't have any desire to go out and buy a house, shoes definitely, but not property. I quite envy my friends who have their life plan all mapped out, they seem so sure of their direction, I can't decide what to wear most days...let alone a direction to head on with my life!

The latest info on the travel front is all about insurance - I need some $$ so I can pay a company lots of money in case I fall off a mountain and break a leg. Travel insurance ain't cheap - especially if you are heading to the Americas!

There is a small insane part of me that is hoping that I do twist my ankle or knock out a tooth just so I get my money's worth. I am sure in a year there will be something I do that requires me to use the insurance (I am just really hoping it isn't accidental death - as that would throw a serious spanner in the works - its a bit hard to see the world when you are dead).

So I am once again scrimping and saving and trying to look at the big picture, it is just the big picture seems so far away. Hope all your travel planners out there are doing ok, I will say a little prayer for you along with myself - lord just let the time fly quickly and get me outta here.

Have shoes, will travel xox

157 days and counting

So in 157 days from today I will be getting on a plane and leaving Perth, Western Australia on a 1/2 round the world plane ticket.

The plan is to spend 12 days in New Zealand, then hop a flight to Los Angeles on the 27th March, spend a month or two traveling around the US of A and then heading up to Vancouver to live and work for 6 - 12 months.

I am completely terrified.

I have traveled quite a bit, last year I spent 3 months backpacking around Europe, some of it done solo and some with friends and family. But this will be the second time that I have lived out of home and I have decided to give it a go on the other side of the world.

There are a few things that make me feel a little bit better:

1) I am not going alone, I am moving with a close friend so we will at least have one another to cling to if we are stuck up the river without a paddle so to speak...

2) I have an onward ticket from Los Angeles to London that I have bought and paid for already.

The things that I am concerned about include:

1) That although my friend is fabulous, I seem to be the practical one of the both of us, and she has this crazy impulsive side that is completely opposite to my cautious (slightly OCD) nature.

2) That if I get stuck, or for some reason can't find work/a place to live etc my onward ticket only gets me as far as London - and then what the frack do I do?

3) MONEY - I seem to not have enough of it - North America is expensive, travel is expensive - between now and the day I leave I have to pay for travel insurance, flights, a backpack, accomodation, and a whole bunch of other random stuff for the trip.

4) Employment, I don't yet have it and I am nervous about getting it when I get there.

So right now I am looking at that dwindling number of days between me and Dday (D stands for departure FYI) and I am feeling a little freaked out.

I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed and trying to stay optimistic.

That's all for today, lord have mercy on me!

Have shoes will travel xox