I am an Australian expat who wears multiple hats: mother, trailing spouse, marketer and blogger. Our family have done the 'ultimate' travel trip: living for eight years as expats in New Jersey, USA. Although we had to relocate back to Australia, I have documented our adventures and relocation trials in this blog, and continue to write about these memories, until there's no more to tell!
RELOCATION: If you are moving to New Jersey for the first time, the actual process of what happens when you arrive at your first US airport is useful to understand beforehand. Mostly this is for your own peace of mind and also to know what will actually happen. Sometimes not knowing what to expect, can make things seem […] Continue reading → 
LIFE IN NEW JERSEY: Looking for a rented place to live in can be quite a challenge, especially when there is only a limited number to choose from. Until moving to New Jersey recently to live as a first-time expat, I hadn’t rented a property in years. So it can be tricky remembering all the things […] Continue reading → 
TRAVEL TALES: It is always a fun idea listing your top destinations that you have visited, not least of all because it gives you a chance to reminisce about all the wonderful places you have been. It’s also a hard task because choosing just ten places, when you have travelled a lot, is exceedingly difficult. […] Continue reading → 
RELOCATION: After just a few posts I know you are probably going to call me the Queen of Doom and Gloom. Well that may be a fair call. But while I’m on a run of telling relocation nightmare stories, I might as well share some others. My only defense is that it may help others to […] Continue reading → 
FAMILY FUN IN NJ: Not only is the Fall season big here in the US but at the centre of most Fall activities seems to be the unlikely vegetable hero, the ‘pumpkin’. This vegetable is seen everywhere at the moment in New Jersey (NJ), as a decorative item on front porches, in shop windows and indoors, and as […] Continue reading → 
RELOCATION: One of our earliest challenges in moving overseas was choosing where to live before we did the physical relocation. Luckily, K’s company provided us with a paid reconnaissance trip before we started choosing a new home town in NJ. Three days to see the sights and make the big decision! That seemed like plenty of […] Continue reading → 
EXPAT LIFE: Now that some time has passed since I wrote my last post, I feel I can move onto talking about some of the things we enjoyed in Australia on our home visit – one being Australian food! One of the greatest luxuries about going home is the ability to indulge your senses in your […] Continue reading → 
EXPAT LIFE: It is well over one month since I written my last post, despite my best intentions. You see while I was in Australia on our home visit and holiday, my father passed away after being sick for a long time. I have now returned to New Jersey and although life has continued here, […] Continue reading → 
EXPAT LIFE: It has been a throroughly exhausting ten days in Sydney. As a result, all my plans for posting to my blog have taken a back step and I am posting after the event. We have spent our time split between the hospital visiting my father who is now very sick, and seeing family and […] Continue reading → 
EXPAT LIFE: We have spent the last week or so in Sydney on our annual home visit, to get our US visas renewed, catchup with family and friends, and to enjoy an ‘Aussie’ holiday before the kids start back to school in September in NJ. Sydney Owns My Heart I love flying into Sydney. The sight […] Continue reading →