Day 20 and chugging along on our family adventure in Australia. There’s been so much to write about, but we’ve on the road for 17 of the last 20 days with faulty wireless access and power charging dilemmas, so apologies for the silence! I’ll try to catch up now that we are (somewhat) settled in Sydney. We crossed the international dateline on August 19th and have since been in more airports and rental cars than I’d like to remember. I love adventure, but am very happy to have finally landed in one place for a few months!
Our trip so far by the numbers:
15,581 miles flown
35 hours on a plane
21 hours in a rental car
21 hours remembering to keep left in the rental car
12 hours waiting to get on a plane
6 flights
6 airports
6 carry-ons
6 checked bags
5 hotels
4 timezones
3 rental cars
3 hours trying to get permissions to bring a car seat on an airplane
2 tired parents kept partially sane by sense of humor
1 toddler, doing well but on the brink of meltdown at any moment
1 smuggled bottle of chilled wine (in carry-on cooler)
1 speeding ticket (blame it on km)
In general, we’ve made some great family memories, but my 2.5 year old keeps crying to “go home to New York City”…hopefully that will improve in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for a post this week detailing The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly from our 20 days of travel, as well as more images from gorgeous Western Australia.
Top:Warehouse Wall, Fremantle, Western Australia, 2013
Middle: Sky Over Pacific, 2013* iPhone
Bottom: Sunset Over Central Australia, 2013 *iPhone
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