Sleepless to Seattle: Seattle, Day 1 (5 July 2017)

We don’t much like morning flights because it’s so hard to sleep when you wouldn’t normally be sleeping. We much prefer the flight, say, out of Los Angeles, when you leave at 10pm or later. You are ready for a sleep then at least (whether or not you do actually sleep). All this is to … Read more

Up, up … and

Ain’t plane travel grand? Our holiday got off to a good start, promptly away from Canberra, courtesy taxi-driver Ian, and on-time landing in Sydney. What could be wrong? It all looked good for a relaxing evening at our airport hotel, but … it was not quite to be. We landed and we sat, and sat, … Read more

On the road again (figuratively speaking)

Well folks, we are heading off overseas again, after three years of being Australia-bound. Our destination? Somewhere warm, and easy to organise at late notice. In other words, western United States. The first half of our holiday will be new places to us – Seattle and Sacramento – while the second half will be based … Read more