I'M BACK BITCHES

Hey everyone, it's been a while...

Honestly, I feel like I need to reintroduce myself, it’s been that long since I last posted here. Life’s just been full-on. Since launching Dry Miles, so much has happened, and somewhere along the way, life sort of steamrolled my original intentions for this space.

When I first started Dry Miles, I was self-employed and had the flexibility to really focus on it. Then things shifted. I took on a full-time job, started studying, kept running my business, began volunteering, and was training for a half marathon. My ADHD brain was on complete overload, and, well… Dry Miles naturally ended up on the back burner.

Apart from an event I held just before I left the UK, I haven’t done much to revive it, until now.

Right now, I’m travelling, in between jobs, and finally in a space where I want to put energy back into this platform and build it into what I always hoped it would be.

My mission hasn’t changed: I want Dry Miles to be a space of hope and awareness for anyone still caught in addiction or struggling with thier substance use. I want to be visible in my recovery so that others know there is another way; there is so much more to life than getting shitfaced every day.

I’ll be real: consistency is hard for me, especially when I don’t have a routine. But I’m trying. That’s all any of us can do, right?

Recently, I hit a pretty huge milestone 4 years sober and I’m currently exploring Australia, possibly looking to settle here. Nothing’s set in stone, but it feels good to be back even if it's just for a while.

So why Australia?

Australia has always had a special place in my heart. Straight out of uni, it was the first place I dreamed of visiting (thanks to a childhood diet of Home and Away and Neighbours, obviously). I always wanted to come solo, but life had other plans. I ended up in a relationship, and we made the move together… twice.

After that relationship ended and everything unraveled; including my battle with addiction and mental health. I knew I had unfinished business here. During COVID in the midst of the chaos and unhappiness, I promised myself I’d come back. On my first sobriety birthday, I did just that. I came alone, jumped out of a plane, hung out with my friends and made new memories. But I still felt like something was missing.

When the laws changed and I found out I could get another Working Holiday Visa, that old “what if” itch came back strong. So here I am finally doing it on my own terms. I don't know what's going to happen but I am just happy to be here for now and living in the present.

Thanks for sticking with me. If you want to follow more of my journey in real time, I’ve just launched a new TikTok: @drymilestravel. Follow me and come along for the ride.