Australia
We made it home. After 3 flights in 3 days and over 21 hours of total flight time, we are back in the US of A. Bless anyone living full time in Australia. The country itself is great, but trying to get anywhere else with that as your home base takes some next-level dedication to travel. Japan to Australia I'll confess to being fairly poor at geography. Part of this is a lack of natural skill; the other is cultivated through a lack of desire to improve. Even from the time I started driving, GPS had become prolific enough that I saw little benefit in the seemingly gargantuan effort it took to pay attention to where I was going. Most of the world's attention is focused on east versus west, be it: time zones, cultures, or alliances amongst nations, more attention gets paid to longitude than latitude. This is all a pontificatory way of saying I didn't realize just how far south Australia was from Japan. An excruciating Qantas flight ensured I will never forget. Visiting Austra...
