Heres how to do it best and why itll stick with you long after you leave.
A few months prior, my husband had come across two first-class miles tickets from New York to Melbourne.
Squeezing two destinations into the itinerary required serious strategizing if we didn’t want to run ourselves ragged.
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Fortunately, I had a solution.
Totally worth the splurge, I justified.
“It was really our coming of age.”
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About 90 minutes in, we caught our first sweeping Surf Coast views at Bells Beach.
“It’s just unreal,” I remarked as our trio made its way back to the car.
“Just wait,” said Stuart as he hopped back behind the wheel.
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It’s relentlessly beautiful."
As we cruised, Stuart previewed our next stop: the Razorback at Loch Ard Gorge.
“It’s one of my favorite vistas,” he said.
“It’s a towering slither of limestone surrounded by other dramatically shaped outcrops.
But the best views of the day were yet to come.
Before I knew it, the towering skyline of Melbourne appeared on the horizon.
In the moment, a gobsmacked “It was unreal!”
was the best I could muster.
