It was a long trek up to Agnes Waters and the unimaginately named town of 1770. James Cook landed in 1770 on year of 1770 hence its name, but that seems like a poor justification for a town name. It took 7 hours to drive from Brisbane, 1.5 hours longer than usual due to the [...]
Jan 052011
Dec 122010
Well, I did not get to spend that much time in Sydney. About one and a half days. Sydney is clearly a superior city to Brisbane. It’s bigger, more culturally diverse, and far more active. The flight from Brisbane to Sydney on Virgin Air was ok. The flight was delayed by 30 minutes which meant [...]
Dec 082010
So the first two days of Brisbane are complete. Day 1 was spent doing laundry, errands, and exploring the main urban park. And what a park it is. I’m sure that if I lived here, I wouldn’t think anything of it. But I don’t live here, so I was blown away by the vastly different [...]
Dec 072010
So leg #3 out of 19 is complete. The longest trip of the whole lot. The flight was 13 and a half hours long. A little bumpy getting out of LA but not bad. Unlike American Airlines, everything was free, but for once I didn’t take advantage of it. At this point I was pretty [...]
