G'day, Mates!
I'm writing this blog after the fact because I don't yet have the iPad I hope to get for Christmas (Jim!). Besides that, I had no time on the trip to do a blog, or breathe, for that matter! I have somewhat overcome my jet lag-- what an experience-- so maybe coherence will creep in somewhere along the way. The basis of the blog is my 20-day tour with 10 Senior Circle members from Pleasanton, Texas, to Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji from October 20-November 10, 2011. And YES-- counting the flights going over & coming home, we flew 14 times on this trip!-- Australia's a big place! Saw a map with Texas set inside it-- took up about 1/10 of Australia-- very humbling!
October 20 - 21: started trip off by plane being delayed 2 hours on take-off from San Antonio-- like we hadn't seen the SA airport before! This pre-adventure caused us to have to rebook our DFW connecting flight. When we got to DFW, raced like the wind to get the plane & were last ones on-- and, of course, had no space for our carry-ons. Real trip began when we changed planes again in LA for the 14.5 hour long trip to Melbourne, AU. At least we had personal seat electronics on which we could watch movies, listen to music, watch TV, or plot our flight. QANTAS has great food! I think I DID get quite a few hours of sleep, with the help of a coupla Tylenol PMs! Made it to Melbourne about 11:00 AM Australia time (approximately 14 hours AHEAD of CST in US). So, from this point on, this chick did not know what day or time it was-- still don't!
At Melbourne airport, hooked up with a larger Collette tour, so our numbers increased to 43. Many from northern & eastern US and more from Ontario, Canada.
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