Poor Anne had to get up at 6am to drive me to Brisbane airport in our new car on the first leg of my journey as I set off to meet Hilary & the boys for an overdue rendezvous and our long-awaited tour of Japan and China. After 16 weeks of separation, a lonely 8hr flight from Brisbane for me and a very lengthy flight from LA for Hilary, Tritan, Seb and Dominic, we were finally reunited in the baggage reclaim hall at Narita airport in Tokyo. Who says romance is dead? The flight from Brisbane had arrived on schedule and I was first through passport control. Two flights from LA had arrived at the same time, so I was pacing the baggage hall floor from one end to the other in anticipation, rather like an
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