Early, early, early morning.  Early.  My wife was up at 3am to go for a swim on the top floor of the hotel.  Psycho.  I sat on my ass in the hotel room and had coffee.We were at the airport by 5:30am.  The flight landed in Sydney at 6:15am, but with the baggage claim, cus...  read more

It's day one of the big family gathering.  I can't believe that almost all of my wife's family is coming out to visit us.  Together.  All of them.  At the same time.  For two weeks.Holy shit.Roll call: my wife's mom and step dad, her twin sister and her boyfriend, and her...  read more

Eager as we were to be reunited with Indy, we were up and out of the hotel fairly early.  This turned out to be a very good thing.  We needed the extra time since I took a number of wrong turns and ended up driving around in the heart of Sydney during morning rush hour.Stupid, stupid, s...  read more

So we landed in Australia.  Now what?It didn't take long to get through immigration, grab our luggage, and go through customs.  And we didn't get stopped!  I attribute that to the big fucking pile of luggage we were dragging.  No one wanted to dig through all that crap.We loca...  read more

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March 14