Tuesday, December 19th –
Wednesday 20th.
I spent the morning organizing my bags
and packing up. I had arranged a pick up fro 11am to take me to the
airport. It turned out it was the driver for Gadventures. We had a
good talk about the company on the half hour drive to the airport.
At the airport I met an American couple
who are travelling as support staff for a team of sailors who are
racing around the world in the Team Akzononbel Volvo Ocean Race
(it's amazing who you meet when you talk to people). They have
invited me to visit the team and the boat in late December when they
arrive at the Melbourne dockyard. That should be interesting. They
were also ashamed or embarrassed Americans. They are actually looking
for another country to live in because they don't like the way their
country in going. Very interesting.
I had a 9 hour flight from Cape Town to
Dubai on Emirates . I left Cape Town at 1:30 and arrived in Dubai at
1 am. Then a two hour lay over before taking another Emirates flight
from Dubai to Melbourne where I arrived at midnight. Two long flights
and six hours in time changes. I was exhausted as I am not able to
sleep on planes. I managed to doze for a couple of hours, but that
was about it.
Lucy picked me up at the airport and we
got to her place by 2:00.
Merry Christmas Joe
ReplyDeleteHave a warm and wonderful Christmas down under. I didn't know Australia was on the itinerary this go round. Nice. But long trip. Snow and cold here but what else is new.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Joe!!
ReplyDeleteMichelle makes it sound like snow and cold is a bad thing..LOL!! We are loving it! We will be thinking of you
tomorrow. Merry Christmas!