28 Jan 2019

Jada Yuan - travelling the world alone

From Afternoons, 3:07 pm on 28 January 2019

Jada Yuan reckons she won the journalism equivalent of the lottery,beating out over 13 thousand applicants to go 52 places around the world in 365 days for the New York Times.

120 thousand kilometers later, including a stop in New Zealand, she's reflecting on the ups and downs of travelling alone, learning to trust and why the ability to sleep anywhere is the most valuable superpower of all.

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