Touchdown.

Phew, a few days of flights, interrupted sleep, meeting people, beers, intermittent net connections, NYC work issues, Medicare cards, phone cards, resume updates and job applications conspired to keep me incognito. This blog is an attempt to plug that dark hole all my time seems to disappear down…

Phew, a few days of flights, interrupted sleep, meeting people, beers, intermittent net connections, NYC work issues, Medicare cards, phone cards, resume updates and job applications conspired to keep me incognito. This blog is an attempt to plug that dark hole all my time seems to disappear down…

I arrived into Kingsford-Smith airport Thursday morning 8:30am Sydney time. NYC->LAX was 6 hours, followed by 1 hour in LAX, then another 14 hours LAX->SYD. Bill Bryson’s “In a Sunburnt Country” was the perfect book for the flight – hilarious, and not too taxing, yet really captures the Australian condition. Noise cancelling headphones also substantially improve the comfort factor, and an iPod means not having to listen to piped music averaged down to the travel market demographic and prone to breakdown (such was the lot of several passengers on the flight). These together with food and interesting and talkative neighbouring passengers all make the 19 hours on the plane fair more manageable than may first be expected. Besides, doing the NYC->Perth flight is 27 hours, so this was nothing…

Some views of Bondi Beach

Beach front buildings

Squiggs House

Bondi Junction Townhouses

Local architecture