29th September to 2nd October 2006....... I think! On paper, this was going to be a bugger, a real marathon. The longest single journey of my entire trip in terms of time (calendar days, that is) and distance. But, sometimes, the supposed hardships of the life of a traveller are not always what they may seem. Before departure, my itinerary looked something like this; Leave cousins house at around Midday on Friday 29th September to get to Vancouver airport at 1.30 and check in for a 4.30pm flight. From there, it was a six hour hop to Hawaii (3 hours behind Vancouver) and a four hour wait for the next one, leaving at 11.50pm that night. This was to be a ten and a half hour flight to Sydney, arriving at 6.30am, Sunday 1st October (I
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