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Adelaide’s Purple Trees

I don’t think I’ll ever forget my astonishment the first time I saw them.  It was the shock of seeing something that seemed unnatural.  Throughout my childhood in North America I had only ever seen trees with green leaves or the vibrant red, orange and yellows of autumn, followed by brown as the leaves began […]

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5 Reasons I’m Grateful to Live in Adelaide, Australia (especially during a pandemic)

They call Australia ‘The Lucky Country,’ and as the pandemic continues to rage outside our little South Australia bubble I’ve never felt more lucky or grateful to be a resident of Adelaide and Australia. Five Reasons I’m Grateful I live in Adelaide, Australia (especially in 2020) 1) Universal Health Care If ever there was a […]

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Why I Love Living in Adelaide, South Australia

Adelaide has funny habit of surprising people. It’s not a big city and it’s tucked away on the southern coast of Australia far from many places on the planet. It doesn’t often make the news and other Australians have a weird habit of knocking it.  Their disparaging comments frequently suggest that Adelaide is just a […]

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Why I Moved to Adelaide, South Australia

Two years before moving to Adelaide, South Australia I had never even heard of it. In 2005, I was working my second ski season at Copper Mountain Resort in Colorado. I spent my days outside skiing, shoveling snow and working on my goggle tan. It was far from the career I had planned while in […]