Family The three of us head smiling into the third leg of this year’s adventures. Eight in-flight movies and a stopover in Hong Kong take us to Perth, Western Australia, and a taxi zips through warm, midnight air towards our backpacker hostel. The hostel’s reception is littered with red-eyed, slurring revelers who are reaching the end of an all-dayer to celebrate the Rugby World Cup final. After we check-in, we navigate through the mass of bodies which are propping themselves up against walls, banisters, and each other, and head to our room. We crash out with the aid of the first episodes from a DVD boxset on the laptop. Having the laptop with us is a luxury, and from it we pre-booked the Hong Kong hotel, this hostel, and the hire car being delivered to the
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