I'm here!

I got into Sydney more-or-less on time (about an hour late, negligible for a 22.5 hour flight) but exhausted nonetheless.  Of course, the massive jetlag doesn't help -- my body thinks it's 7:30pm yesterday evening, not 9:30am on a beautiful Sunday morning.  I'm sitting in my room in the hostel where I'll be staying while in Sydney and it's truly astounding.  Yes Mom, I'm fine and the plane didn't crash in the ocean...

More once I've recovered from the flight -- now it's time for some much-needed rest.

Everyone who knows me knows that I have the travel bug, bad.  This blog is a chronicle of my latest excursion, a planned 4-month odyssey through Australia and New Zealand with little more than a sturdy pair of boots and my trusty laptop and digital camera.  You can follow the ups and downs of my trip here, and I promise to share as much of the adventure and the scenic goodness as I can manage!

After months of planning and saving I'm leaving the weekend after Easter: booked on Qantas Airways flight 3246 from Toronto to Los Angeles, departing 6:55pm on Friday 16 April; then I catch Qantas flight 108 across the Pacific from L.A. to Sydney, no stopovers, arriving on Sunday 18 April at 7:20am local time.  I'll be spending over 22 hours in the air (yes Mom, I promise to get up and stretch my legs so I don't get bloodclots... )!  I'll make my next entry once I've settled in Sydney.