Posted in Air Travel, Uncategorized on Jan 28th, 2008 3 Comments »
I usually do not get jet lag very badly. This time, however, it has been brutal: I’ve not been able to fall asleep until after 4AM each of the last three nights. Tonight, I’ll settle for 1AM!
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Posted in Air Travel, Thinking Aloud on Jan 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
Greetings from the Red Carpet Club at Los Angeles International Airport. The flight home was about 90 minutes shorter, and it seemed to go by much faster. The food was worse than usual, and I still can’t find a comfortable way to sleep fully reclined in United’s business class seats - compared to American’s where […]
Posted in Air Travel on Jan 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
I flew Qantas back from Ayers Rock yesterday. The plane was about 85% full in economy, but business was virtually empty. Out of a possible 12 seats, there was me, and an older Australian couple who booked a weekend away at the last minute and were shocked (!) to find out that Ayers Rock would […]
Posted in Air Travel, Car Rental, Tasmania on Jan 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The alarm clock went off at the ungodly time of 3:30 this morning. In retrospect, I could have probably slept another 45 minutes, but I could not remember if I had an advance seat assignment on my JetStar flight from Melbourne to Hobart. I had packed the night before, so it was pretty quick to […]
Posted in Air Travel, Melbourne, Sydney on Jan 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
I ended up being just really tired during the morning on Wednesday, and never made it to Darlinghurst. I just wandered around some of the area east of the hotel, including Hyde Park, stopped and got some Indian curry chicken and chick peas for lunch, and then changed and hung out in the Executive […]
Posted in Air Travel on Jan 8th, 2008 3 Comments »
I fly out early this evening to Melbourne, so I am packing up here at the hotel and will be offline for probably the next 24 hours. I do not feel like doing the 10am Opera House tour, so I’m just going to take a bus over to the Darlinghurst neighborhood and look around, then […]
Posted in Air Travel on Jan 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
After the adventure involved in getting to Los Angeles, the actual flight from LA to Sydney was a breeze. The only little scare was that they forgot to turn on the in-flight seat power to the upper deck, and I had to remind the flight attendent to do so.
United’s 747s are old and ratty, but […]
Posted in Air Travel, Food and Drink, Sightseeing, Sydney on Jan 3rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Greetings from Sydney. It’s 6:30pm local time, and I’m trying to stay awake for another 90 minutes before calling it a night. I will write more tomorrow when I have a more stable internet connection. But:
The flights were uneventful, which is how I like it. I got 3 hours of sleep about 1/4 way through the […]
Posted in Air Travel on Jan 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Yes, you read that correctly. I called United to find out how long my Chicago-LA flight was really going to be delayed, and they offered me a routing Chicago-Sacramento-LA, same plane both legs, leaving at 3pm instead of 6:30pm. With an exit row. Needless to say, I took it. I managed to get upgraded at […]
Posted in Air Travel, Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2008 No Comments »
The snowstorm was pretty harsh last night, and it was right around 6:30pm. Last night’s version of my flight left 3 hours late, but the flight to get to Sydney via San Francisco left on time. What a crapshoot. Tonight’s flight is already half an hour late.
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