October 17
Pretty surreal when you think it took Amelia 28 days to fly from Miami to New Guinea in 1937 and I can fly from Melbourne to LA in under 15 hours and can be in the oh so French city of Montreal in four hours. A great flight across. Oh I do love the A380 – I really couldn’t get my head around how something that big with that many people on board could actually stay in the sky but honestly it is like sitting in my lounge room at home. I have to keep taking my headphones off to make sure the thing is actually still going! I find flying to the US slightly disconcerting – the time changes do my head in. We arrived in LA a few hours before we left Melbourne and then we leave LAX in the morning, fly for four hours and arrive in Montreal in the dark in the evening – then to totally confuse me, in Montreal they have decided that North is not really North but actually North West – the streets are skewed to the compass which means essentially that the map makes no sense at all … quite disconcerting when you are not sure what country you are in, which time zone it is, what day it is and now North isn’t really North.
Sleeping under the stars 