In October 2013, I bought a one-way ticket to Sydney, Australia, intent on spending a year living and working Down Under. While in Australia I learned to scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef, worked as a deckhand on a super-yacht, pruned grapes as a vineyard farmhard, and made some very dear friends. I then spent a few months backpacking around Southeast Asia, before returning home to New York to visit friends and family.