In the final scene from Point Break (Keanu Reaves’ 1991 blockbuster film about an undercover FBI agent tracking bank robber surfers), Patrick Swayze is released from handcuffs to surf a...

I felt completely at home in my beach suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, a city of about 1.3M with a similar layout to Philadelphia nestled in Australia’s wine region capital...

Where is Kangaroo Island? My 2nd Workaway experience was on Kangaroo Island, a remote island in South Australia that few Australians could locate and even fewer have visited.  Because of its...

Noosa, Australia I am a guest here, volunteering through a company called Workaway, receiving room and board for 5 hours a day of work…  but it’s hard to call it...

A Trip to Sydney After traveling 53 hours to get to Sydney, Australia, you could say I took the scenic route.  With an unexpected 12 hour layover in LA and...

I stripped down to my bikini and gingerly stepped into the 48-degree water.   The wool hat, puff jacket, running jacket, long sleeve shirt, stretch pants and running shoes with thick...

It was just an experiment… These last 3 months were a trial run in a new lifestyle experiment.  The goal was to be a house sitter up and down the...