Sarah Kanowski

I think we brought

$300 and we were going to do India by a third class sleeper train.

I've met a lot of Indians since who don't travel like that.

It was astounding just meeting Indians and they're telling about their lives and it's just brilliant.

What a country.

No, I was counting the days.

Sometimes it's prison language.

We talk about we're in but we're going to get out soon and I'll get out in two years and I got out but then I got back in and, yeah, I was certainly thinking I've got a big life I want to live and now I've met this incredible person as well.

We chose Kenya because I had 37,000 Qantas frequent flyer points and I called Qantas on a Tuesday afternoon.

Caitlin was off at work and I said, do you reckon you can get me to Africa one way with that?

And they said, we have Nairobi Christmas Eve.

Do you want that?

I was like, yeah, I'll take it.

Caitlin came home that afternoon and I told her that I had booked my flight and I wondered if she wanted to book hers as well.

And we decided we wanted to – it was my time to leave the Navy.

I had served out my time.

We'd both studied a lot.

We had five degrees between us at that point.

So I had two master's degrees in international politics and international development.

She had a master's degree in international education.