I just arrived in Manhattan! I stopped for four hours in Sydney and a couple of hours in Los Angeles (It's really really big) to clear customs, and then arrived in New York city (which is also really really big) right on schedule at 5:30pm local time. I'd like to thank Paul and Danielle from Sydney for getting off at LA so I had three seats to myself for the LA-NY leg. I slept about three hours on that flight, which was the most I got on any trip. When I got off the plane at JFK airport in NY, I claimed my baggage and got in a black cab with a well dressed sneaky looking driver. Some pearls of wisdom from my friendly New York City taxi driver: "So your parents earn a lot of
... read more