normally on my channel adventure and exploration are always on the horizon
but today our journey takes a turn for the unexpected my name is Josie and alongside
my partner Michael we've been living the dream exploring the beauty of Southeast Asia for the
past 13 months but as all travelers know sometimes life has other plans
we received a call that has forced us to put our travels on hold and return home to Australia join
us on this emotional Journey as we share with you the reason behind our sudden return and
the impact it is so that's why we're coming home family and health always come first and we invite
you to experience this chapter of our travels with us let's go home thank you yeah thank you
okay so we are running a little bit late right now uh we are on gate 26 or something which is
all the way down the end so we're trying to get there and we're bored about now so let's see if
we can get to our gate as soon as we can stop and talk we'll fill you in there's actually a
really serious reason why we're heading home and we haven't collected you this
is not clickbait we have a six or eight hour layover in Kuala Lumpur we're gonna
head there now and then we'll explain what's sort of happening and what's going on because
oh hi
we have about two two and a half hours until we get to Kuala Lumpur
and honestly like it all happened so fast it feels weird it feels really weird right now um
telling all the privileged
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you took this Wounded Heart of Mine I put it back together
all right so we've just made it here to Malaysia it was a pretty good flight actually so we're just
gonna go we have what seven hours until we check in or something yeah so we have a long layover
here first we have to go through customs get our bag and then we have to go catch a bus or
something train to the other airport we're in a separate airport to where we're gonna be flying
from so now we have to go from this airport to the other airport and that's where we're
going to be flying out but we don't fly out until about 11 p.m tonight so let's
go get our bags and continue on to the other Airport and then we'll let you know one of
the longest custom wines we've ever seen in my life lucky we have a long layover I
reckon we'll be lucky if it takes less than an hour to get through this oh we'll be lucky all
right so we have our baggage we have I guess all of our positions we have to catch the KL
at IA Express from here to kla2 which is the second airport so let's go find this train yeah
yeah thank you Google how long till the next one 10 minutes okay thank you
yeah so since we're in Malaysia one thing I really want while we're here
is roti Chennai if you know me you know I love my Roti Channel I did
a whole video about it when I was here in Malaysia I'm gonna leave it on the
screen for you right now but I need some Roti Chennai or at least some Kaya toast
let's have a look it's been a long day I need some food and then we'll catch up can I get uh
no it's my favorite morning coming okay tomorrow morning I'm not here tomorrow morning
tell you what it has been a little while since we have been in Malaysia look at this big what's
this like pint almost of Milo and if you know me you know I love my Smiler around here let's have
my first one in Malaysia for quite a long time [Applause] I love Milo yes thank you thank you
okay I'm gonna be honest it's not the best Roti chadai that I've had and it's also not
the best like Kaya bread that I've had either but we tried everywhere else and everywhere's
clothes rotary channel is kind of only for breakfast in Malaysia all right so we've
gone through our second checked luggage baggage everything like that this video is a little bit
all over the place but to be honest with you so are we right now our Life's a bit so are
we so if you've noticed the last I don't know a little while or definitely if you're members of
my channel where you get my weekly updates you've noticed that we've kind of said things along the
lines of like we have something personal going on and I've kind of not said anything because
it's not 100 my place to say but we're here to explain to you what's going on first of all
but coming back I just want to tell everyone you guys on the on as viewers will not see as
much of an impact in how long we're going home for as we're actually going home because in the
YouTube world you normally ahead a couple of weeks you'll probably only get three or four
videos from Australia if that and then we'll be back out traveling and seeing the world again
but we we have to go home right now and that's why we got the news 24 hours ago and we packed
everything up and and we're on our way home booked the first flight we couldn't we're on our way home
can tell them why I think it's not my place to say yeah so it is my reason for a lot of
my adult life my mum's been quite sick quite uh quite ill and in the last 18 months Her diagnosis
has been one that's terminal um so as Travelers that means you're kind of always on alert for
um when is the right time to come home and for us that's now we would only go home over
Christmas but things did start to get a little worse just before Christmas and we obviously
don't know when you never know when you're going to get the call from your family to come back at
the drop of a hat yeah um but this was sort of the first call um yeah if we'd gone in if we come
in for Christmas we would have spent essentially our emergency budget all of them our money which
might have would have impacted us being able to come back if I got a phone call saying come back
now but this is also kind of a comeback now as well probably my last chance to spend like a good
solid month with my mum this is probably the last chance I'm gonna have to spend a month with my mom
so that's why we're coming home
and it hits you a little bit more deeply when you are sitting here about checking into the flight
we'll be home in 12 hours and I can't wait to see my mum but it's not a it's not a happy well he's a
happy reunion we've been gone for 13 months and we miss out both we miss all our parents we're going
to Sperry Michael's going to spend time with his mum we are coming back so don't worry about that
we're not done traveling yet I don't know how much you'll save my mom though because Michael's
mums are very like private off social media person and obviously I don't blame her given everything
she's going through I probably wouldn't want to be on the internet either put them on photos of
herself nothing as those of you who know and and like they say cancer touches well I've said the I
said that's what it is they say cancer touches one in three lives in some capacity so you guys plenty
of people here watching it 30 of you or more will have gone through something similar with a family
member or yourself and um when people have gone through chemo and radio and those sorts of things
even though we love them and care about them they don't feel like they look like themselves and they
don't necessarily want to be on film so I'll try and share what we can and what mum's comfortable
with but if you see more of Josie's mum I mean it shows his Vlog my mum doesn't even want to
be filmed either but I do it anyway if anyone's going through something similar and it brings up
anything for you know that hey here's people in the screen that are going through maybe
something similar to what you're going through and it hurts and it's hard for us too so all
of our I guess best wishes with anyone watching who's going through something similar we're now
yeah back to Australia it's been a long day it's been a long day
we've caught two flights seven taxis we started at seven a.m in Bangkok and it's
it's 7 45 now p.m so we don't fly out for another three and a half hours and then it's nine hours
flight land in Sydney but then I live in Newcastle so it's a three-hour trip a train from Sydney back
to you we're going to get home at we're going to get home in about 24 hours from now not to
take away obviously from what has happened but if you follow me on Instagram or anything like
that I've kept my members up to date I've a very severe back injury at the moment so it's it's um
everything's happening at once it's hurting me to sit down here until today I couldn't walk so it's
it's been a very hard couple of days so I'm not gonna lie we just ate at the oh and had a coffee
or whatever sat at the only cafe or anything open in this entire airport that wasn't McDonald's
and Michael was telling me about how good this airport is and oh there's heaps to eat there's
heaps to do everything is closed where are we KL klia too I used to travel through this airport
maybe four to five times a year nothing's open everything's closed everything's closed there's no
yeah it's not great now we're just waiting at the gate to go into our gate it's about
10 o'clock at night yeah I'm just gonna preface this we are sitting
at Flex Plus or like a LifeLight bed I didn't buy it I can't afford it Michael bought it for
me if you heard me earlier I'm having really bad back issues at the moment as in like I couldn't
walk the other day I am on a lot of medication I'm on a lot of pain medication I'm on a lot of
nerve medication I'm on a lot of medication to get me through this flight and Michael
gifted me a lifelike bed um if he didn't do that I probably couldn't afford going home at this stage
um this is a raw real and honest Vlog probably not as put together as normal but
yeah we're going home for a little bit let's get on this let's get on this flight thank you
how are you today good how are you I'm great thank you all right so we're just
heading on to the plane now for what a nine hour trip yeah nine hours until we get to go
home yeah which even though I don't want to do I want to do h k yes thank you yes
so this is the like is it like premium Flex or something like flatbird Air Asia flight C7
go watch non-stop Dan for that but this is cool we love non-stop Dan and Oscar
Yeah well yeah they're the same well they're not anyway we love them both
um but this is cool I'm out of my element trying to give you a plane tour I might get one in a
second after we've settled in a sec got given a small water and I think we get one dinner and I
think that's it so yeah we've got a little tray table here we have a little Heidi hole
we have like a little light behind me as well I'm assuming for like when it gets dark and I want to
read or something like that there's no video or like screen in front of me or everything I think
that's an Air Asia thing that's what you pay for I suppose I don't know if you get something like
an iPad or something with movies I don't think so so we've downloaded a whole bunch of them um
you've got your controls over this side can't use them yet because it's not working I don't think
they're making work until like plane takes off or something thank you okay thank you uh flight time
today we're looking at 7 hours and 45 minutes and we shall bringing initially at 35 000 years
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now we've had the dinner mine was really spicy there's a little bit of turbulent environment
I've got my men fully reclined so it's on a bit of an angle it kind of feels like that but it's
almost fully flat which is awesome my back has been killing me so it's probably about I don't
know 1am 1 30 in the morning for us so the lights are off and I think it's time to go to sleep when
we wake up we'll be in Australia back home for the first time in over 13 months let's go to Australia
morning I think I have about 40 minutes
until we land it is daytime now the hell's out like a light the whole time so I'm still
a little bit asleep I just woke up got a good sunset sunrise and I can see Australia
just picked up our bags and now we're gonna head to Michael's house
so we're originally meant to drive from here in a rental car to my mum's house see my mum and
then head up two hours drive to where Michael lives and but we went to book a car yesterday
and it was sixteen hundred dollars one thousand six hundred dollars to get a car for four hours
to drive from Sydney to Newcastle so we're not doing that I think now we're just going
to catch the train from here to Newcastle which is two to three hours Michael's dad's
gonna pick us up from the train station when we get there so we just have to go through customs
now make sure everything's all good we didn't bring anything illegal um no we didn't so the
one thing I love about macca's in Australia or McDonald's is that every macca's is like
a professional Brewster like coffee shop we have a thing called my Cafe I know there's
some of them in Southeast Asia but like they're everywhere and pretty much every Mac is here
fourteen dollars for two drinks all toasty and 54. we just spent like 70
bucks seventy dollars and we got just landed in Australia that's good to be back [Music]
it feels so weird to be here
yes one oh not here yeah I have to go that way okay all right thank you
so as you just saw I just got kicked off the train welcome back welcome
back to Australia sausage roll in Australia it's a delicacy
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thank you have a good one all right so we have made it to Newcastle which is where Michael's
from we're gonna show you a little bit of our hometown coming up so and reunite with
our families for the first time after traveling for over 13 months so make sure you do subscribe
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