My exit from Ukraine in late February 2009 was no other than a dramatic effort down to the final minute of departure. All those Ukrainian bills I was hiding in tampon boxes added up to quite a few U.S. dollars, but getting that money exchanged after leaving the country would have been extremely dif ...
Brooke vs. Australia | March 4, 2010
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Australia is a pretty random place. It has some of the harshest and most extreme environments - even a landscape in part that looks like Mars - and yet so many people call it home. The wildlife ranges from cute and cuddly to vicious and deadly (watch out for those drop bears!). Australia has be ...
Brooke vs. Australia | February 18, 2010
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I don't usually do a lot of shout out type posts on my blog, but this one is long overdue. There was a project I took on about a month ago where I begged and pleaded for your YouTube video views to help me win a job. First off, thank you so much to everyone who watched this video: You a ...
Brooke vs. Australia | February 13, 2010
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I realized just as I started writing this that I might have a weird obsession with things that are underground. Another stop-off on the outback road trip was to White Cliffs, an old opal mining town where the few inhabitants actually live underground. It also happens to be the location of the wo ...
Brooke vs. Australia | February 8, 2010
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It seemed almost magical. I finally had a way to coax Patrick into wanting to go on a random outback adventure, and it came in the form of a fisherman's paradise. At least that's what the booklet said. "Menindee - Photographers and fishermen take note!" (or something along those lines). ...
Brooke vs. Australia | February 5, 2010
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You might not expect it but this Silverton Cafe actually sells shit. No, it's not listed on the menu when you walk inside, but it is there. It's not baked shit, or fried shit, or even toasted shit. They don't put it on the grill or in the microwave; they don't put it in the refrigerator. T ...
Brooke vs. Australia | January 24, 2010
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Can you all help a girl out? I feel like I'm always applying for random stuff and just never getting it - but this time is different! I want to win the Best Backpacking Job in Australia, so I submitted a video explaining why I'd be so great (in my opinion). What do I get? Well how about 3 mont ...
Brooke vs. Australia | January 12, 2010
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For part of my recent holiday, I decided to go the non-traditional route here and avoid the beaches in hopes of getting a little taste of the Australian Outback. So, I went on a road trip with Patrick all the way out to the farthest Western reaches of New South Wales in order to visit an oasis in ...
Brooke vs. Australia | January 9, 2010
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I've probably mentioned it before, but a large part of the English-speaking Western world actually believes that Americans don't speak English. So, what exactly do we Americans speak? American! Look, I'll give it to the Brits that perhaps their English is the more proper and correct version. ...
Brooke vs. Australia | December 24, 2009
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Thousands of Australians are going without proper footwear all across the country. From a random sampling, an estimated 10% of the population performs daily activities, such as grocery shopping or walking to work, without any form of shoe on whatsoever. The cause of this strange behavior was i ...
Brooke vs. Australia | December 7, 2009
11 CommentsClearly, I do my best writing when I'm emotionally unstable. Anything that comes out of these fingers when I'm feeling ...
"Most Americans aren't in good physical condition because they don't exercise enough." "No matter how unhealthy it ma...
This is true. I am currently at the ripe ol’ age of 25 – almost to the point where people start making jokes about ...
