Friday, August 24, 2007

8/20/07 Arriving in Australia

We left SanFrancisco on Sat. night the 18th, and arrived in Sydney on Mon. the 20th in the morning. It was a 14 hour flight, direct to Sydney. Amazingly it wasn't too bad though. We flew w/Quantas and other than there not being an enormous amount of leg room it was great. And it wasn't very full so we had plenty of room to spread out to sleep. They also feed you a lot, even on the domestic flights!

A friend of ours, Jim, met us at the airport and took a suitcase that we brought for our last week in Sydney. It was great to see him, but we had to get on our next flight to Darwin (at the very top of Australia, in the Northern Territory). We'll spend more time w/Jim and Sarah later in the trip. The flight to Darwin was almost 5 hours, but went fine. We arrived in the afternoon, took a shuttle to downtown and found a place to spend the night- hostel, but a double room so we didn't have to share the room with other, though we did share the bathroom. We also booked a couple tours for the days to follow. It was a very early night for us- as you can imagine we were a bit tired!

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