Sydney ✈ Adelaide

A few weeks ago I went on my first solo travel trip. This trip, like many things in my brain and world, symbolised a lot for me despite its modesty in duration and distance. I visited Adelaide, SA - which is a lovely little one and a half hour plane trip away from Sydney - for six days and five nights.

The trip was a result of a little claustrophobia, a little wandermust, and a growing despondency toward any travel plans actually coming to fruition with friends. A solo, domestic trip seemed like a winning combination, and indeed it worked like a charm. 

I had a quietly wonderful time away. There is so much potential and opportunity in every day life and it inherently does not make sense to me to squander that. I was reminded that only when I kept my eyes and mind open then I would really stumble upon the gems.

The city holds a quiet charm and after spending many a day around the Sydney CBD area in the past half year I was really darn grateful for a significantly less populated city.

I stayed for a few days with a friend at his university unit and then a few days at a hostel, both of which I felt pretty much instantly at home and comfortable. I have a theory that if you place in my hands a book, an electronic device, and a cup of tea I will be able to feel at ease anywhere I go. The hospitality and warm welcomes from both places helped too, of course. Lovely people do indeed continue to exist.

The hostel I stayed at offered a free bike rental service so the morning I left, I rented one and cycled down to get breakfast right before I had to head to the airport. 

Perhaps neon signs weren't the wisest choice in terms of first impressions but Hostel 109 you were lovely!

I didn't manage to photograph everything I wanted to because I was delightfully focused on being present and a sponge. My favourite moments are both abundant and will thus inevitably be verbose but off the top of my head, the botanic gardens (not pictured) and spending a day wandering a new city answering to every whim that twirled itself around me as to where to go next are two experiences I will hold near and dear for a long time.

'Seek and you shall find' while true, is not perhaps in reference to an absolute finding. Keep seeking, and you shall keep finding.