My best friend Pam and I live to travel. Yes, we LOVE it but we also LIVE for it. It’s the glue that bonds us together and keeps us close, no matter how far apart we are. Though we live in two very different places (I’m all about The Big Apple, while I Pam is blown away with The Windy City), and we see each other only once or twice a year, we manage to stay connected through our travel stories…our memories…our adventures…and our overseas crushes (we’re suckers for accents). During the fall semester of 2005, Pam and I studied abroad together, and lived together, in Galway, Ireland. We traveled all throughout Europe and had the time of our lives. And now we are ready to take on Australia, a place we’ve both dreamed of going since we saw The Adventures of the Little Koala on Nickelodeon as kids and the dream has been newly rekindled after relishing in The Real World: Sydney. Australia is a world away and not a place that every person gets to travel to.

Long before we were jumping off of cliffs in Switzerland and dressing up for high tea in London, we were two shy, awkward high school girls at a very small, and very suburban, all-girls school. As the four years of high school flew by, we became closer with each passing day. We formed a strong bond and promised to always be there for one another through thick and thin. After high school, we went our separate ways to colleges quite far from one another, and that’s where we’ve stayed since then. But every time we talk to or see one another, it’s as if no time has passed. It’s the type of friendship where we can finish one another’s sentence and laugh for hours at absolutely nothing (but mostly about that one time in Scotland when we stayed a sketchy hostel or the time in Germany when we had one too many beers at Hofbrahaus or that one time we…well, we could go on for days with our stories). I can’t image traveling with anyone else other than Pam. So please give us this chance to make new memories (and laughs) as we go on an Australian Adventure.