Here's the "I'm here!" email I sent out to a few people last night: Hello hello! I've made it to my hostel in Cairns, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to suffocate in this humid air before I make it anywhere else! It is sooo hot! The worst part is that our room, of all the rooms in the hostel, is the only one who's air conditioning works during the day. Which means we don't get it at night when there's actually people in the room. The girls here have had the room for 3 weeks already, but they can't get it fixed :( The flights here were not too bad. I had window seats for all of them, two of them a whole row to myself, and on the long one (SanFran to Sydney), I
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