LONG TRIPS

It is 4:45 on a Friday morning and I am sitting here questioning why I get up at 2:30 in the morning to watch a football game from the other side of the world. It appears to be an easy thing to do when your side wins, but when they lose you question your sanity.


Still, I had to be up early this morning to take my two sons to the airport for them to start their long journey back to Australia.


Their first leg will be a 75 minute drive to the regional airport at Kelowna for a 50 minute flight to Vancouver. They will have a four hour wait there until they catch a V Australia flight to Los Angles. There they have a seven hour layover and I suggested to them that they catch a cab to Venice Beach which is only seven miles from LAX.


Of course that is the easy part of the trip as they then face a 14 hour flight back to Brisbane, Australia. They leave just before midnight on Friday and don’t land in Brisbane until 7am on the Sunday morning. A long, long trip from Okanagan Falls!


It has been great having them both here in Canada with us and I hope that they have enjoyed their time here and that the visit has broadened their horizons and given them both the desire to travel more in the future.


We will soon be travelling in their footsteps as we take off for Australia this coming Monday. Our route will be a little different as we will get a ride to Vancouver airport and then take an early evening United Airlines flight to San Francisco. We will then have a short stopover there before boarding a United Airlines flight for Sydney.

We then have four days in Sydney and Melbourne followed by eight days in Brisbane. We then fly to Darwin for five days before we split. I will stay in Darwin whilst Tammie and the girls fly back to Brisbane before departing for Canada.


Exciting times ahead!