melbourne

OH HELLO. I know, it's been a while, hope you're well.

So, update: after working full time taking photos of kids/grown ups on Father Christmas' lap from the end of November until Christmas, I earned myself enough dough to jet off to Melbourne for a few weeks in the new year! 2015? What?
ANYWAY, it was a lovely change of scenery. On Sunday, January 11th, I went to see The 1975 at Festival Hall... and it was the most incredible live music experience ever... I mean, Matt Healy is everything and more. 

"Go anywhere. Pay anything. You won't be sorry." VERY accurate (that is exactly what I did). 

I was also lucky enough to go on a short road trip down to the coast of Victoria- to Apollo Bay (the Byron Bay of Victoria). Driving through the state and seeing the rainforests, the countryside, and scattered Koalas in the wild, was pretty great. Other than that, there was much shopping, much coffee and red wine-drinking, songwriting, sketching, and general wanderwall-ing. 

As I do anywhere I am, really... livin' the dream.

south africa video diary

Finding my roots in South Africa... feel the love. 

south africa photo diary

 

This was my leavers. Finding my roots, meeting family and friends, lots of drinks with the cousins; some South Africans and some from Memphis-town (yes the one in Tennesee), tanning with my abroad sis, climbing mountains, sitting on the edge of Leopard Rock, almost drowing yet warmed in African oceans, my first tidal pool encounter, seeing the 'Big 5' multiple times at the best Sabi Sans Lodge, Idube, watching my brother jump off a cliff (attached to a bungi chord), discovering the joy of cider that is the Savanna Light, riding the horse by the name of Ziggy in and around the Drakensberg mountains, many beaches up and down the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, and on my last night cooking, makin' music and more drinks with the cousins. Sorry, Rotto -you've met your match.