Post-flight portrait

Australia Adventure - Day 1

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November 7th 2010
Hi All! Well, we battled the traffic to LAX, sat on the runway for almost 3 hours after boarding, and Maureen didn't get the upgrade to Business Class and was scrunched in Enonomy--but we finally made it into Sydney. We bought our rail/bus/ferry passes straight away (see, we're speaking Australian already!) and got ourselves to the station closest to our "apartment". It was a pretty good walk ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more