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World Tour, Days 114.5-153: Canberra, aka ALL the Nature!

Thea van Diepen

Did you know that Canberra is the capital of Australia? Did you know that it’s also known as the bush capital, due to how city ordinances preserve the bushland up on the hills? (People can build between the hills.) Canberra was tied for second with Melbourne, Warwick, Hastings, Germany (no specific city, just Germany xD), and Seoul, so I employed the use of a random number generator to make decisions for me. I think it worked out well. I’m rather

World Tour, Day 268: Let’s Catch Up Using Vegemite Pics!

Thea van Diepen

Behold, all the Vegemite pictures from the places I visited between Virginia and now! (Minus Japan, because I’m still here). As I said in the last post, I will write full posts on the three locations you’re most interested in, so after you’ve read this, let me know your vote. (Note: If you read the last post when it came out, you’ll note that it said it was day 153. That was a miscount on my part. It was actually

World Tour, Day 263: How This Series is Ending, and How You’ll Help it Happen

Thea van Diepen

The reason I started this blog series wasn’t because I was travelling. The main reason was because I wanted my mom to know where I was and that I was safe and having fun (hai Mom!). BUT. Now she and I talk on Skype. So the main reason is moot. The other reason was because I knew you’d like it. Which isn’t, in and of itself, a bad reason to do it. BUT: I never actually asked myself if I’d

World Tour, Day 39 Special Edition: Do Serious Unicorn Characters Exist in Books for Adults and Teens? Yes, Yes They Do

Thea van Diepen

When I started telling people about Hidden in Sealskin, the fact that it has a unicorn seemed to be the deciding factor for everyone. Not a single person had a mild response to it. For the most part, the fact that it’s an insane unicorn drew people’s interest, or at least curiosity, but I also had negative responses. For example, as soon as I said the word unicorn to one person, they informed me that they don’t read fantasy with

World Tour, Day 31 Special Edition: Jealousy Is a Collapse, Not an Explosion

Thea van Diepen

I was watching a Tessa Violet music video tonight and I didn’t realize until a little after the video had ended that I’m intensely jealous of her. It’s not something I’ve ever acknowledged as clearly as that before, jealousy. It starts with a desire to do what that other person is doing, ideally better than they’re doing it. It turns inward after that, after you’ve compared with where you’re at to where this other person is at, and you find