Mercedes’ travels began before she was two with a trip across Bass Strait when the family relocated from Hobart to Sydney.
Since then, she’s hung off the tallest building in Toronto, camped by the Nile, helicoptered over Niagara Falls, been spat on by a llama in Cuzco and gotten lost in America’s most haunted house.
Putting together the deals page for Escape for more than 12 years has helped her tick off a few items on her ever-growing travel bucket list.