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spacefemI had a terrible time getting to australia but I made it!
sunday: left Wichita on a flight to dallas. in dallas there were terrible storms and record flooding. our flight was delayed for several hours until we boarded. Then we sat on the airplane in line with other planes to depart for about three hours until the crew timed out. 45 minutes to get out of that line and back to the airport. an hour in a customer service line to re-book, where we were told the only way to get to LAX in time for the next australia flight would be to get to houston and then LAX. signed up for that.
monday: another very delayed departure out of dallas, another two hours sitting on the ramp. by the time we took off we'd missed our connection out of houston. stayed the night in houston.
tuesday: called the airlines and our company's travel service to get an earlier flight out of houston, this time we actually made it to LAX and finally made the flight over the ocean to sydney. we had planned to go to melbourne for the first two days but that was scrapped.
thursday morning: arrived in sydney, finally! it was 7am. We had customer visits, then lunch with local colleagues, then we went to a fun petting zoo to kill time and stay awake and meet kangaroos :) I was so dead tired by evening I could barely stand up but we went to dinner, dang it! we made it!
friday: more customer visits, then in the morning we walked around the harbour and sydney opera house. I was thrown off by the 5pm sunset, it's funny how much our brains get habits around sun up/ sun down times. I thought we were really late for dinner then remembered it's technically winter here.
saturday: woke up and flew to brisbane (pronounced "brisbn", with a really short 2nd syllable, not bris-BANE like a midwesterner would say it. australians will correct you). Rented a car and I got to experience driving on the left side of the road for an hour to our next stop in gold coast. I did okay!
it's a work trip, but it's in a lovely area. I'm here until thursday.
sunday: left Wichita on a flight to dallas. in dallas there were terrible storms and record flooding. our flight was delayed for several hours until we boarded. Then we sat on the airplane in line with other planes to depart for about three hours until the crew timed out. 45 minutes to get out of that line and back to the airport. an hour in a customer service line to re-book, where we were told the only way to get to LAX in time for the next australia flight would be to get to houston and then LAX. signed up for that.
monday: another very delayed departure out of dallas, another two hours sitting on the ramp. by the time we took off we'd missed our connection out of houston. stayed the night in houston.
tuesday: called the airlines and our company's travel service to get an earlier flight out of houston, this time we actually made it to LAX and finally made the flight over the ocean to sydney. we had planned to go to melbourne for the first two days but that was scrapped.
thursday morning: arrived in sydney, finally! it was 7am. We had customer visits, then lunch with local colleagues, then we went to a fun petting zoo to kill time and stay awake and meet kangaroos :) I was so dead tired by evening I could barely stand up but we went to dinner, dang it! we made it!
friday: more customer visits, then in the morning we walked around the harbour and sydney opera house. I was thrown off by the 5pm sunset, it's funny how much our brains get habits around sun up/ sun down times. I thought we were really late for dinner then remembered it's technically winter here.
saturday: woke up and flew to brisbane (pronounced "brisbn", with a really short 2nd syllable, not bris-BANE like a midwesterner would say it. australians will correct you). Rented a car and I got to experience driving on the left side of the road for an hour to our next stop in gold coast. I did okay!
it's a work trip, but it's in a lovely area. I'm here until thursday.
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Date: 2022-08-30 02:17 pm (UTC)