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Day 6 – Off to Melbourne
Off to Melbourne today! We ate our hotel provided breakfast and Angie went downstairs ahead of me to arrange transportation to the airport with the concierge in yet another exercise in frustration of that hotel stay. The individual at the concierge desk made a phone call to the one shuttle firm they use to which…
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Day 5 – Free day!
Today was our last full day in Sydney so we spent most of it wrapping up the last few places we wanted to hit before departing for Melbourne on Monday. Started the day just like the days before with breakfast at the hotel. Turns out that we’ve been eating the “full” breakfast all along so…
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Day 4 – Terrorizing the fauna
Finally had some access to wifi today at Starbucks. The one at the hotel is charging an ungodly amount for an hours worth and it isn’t clear how many devices can attach for that time period. So we’ve been war walking to locate wifi. Nearly all of the wifi requires some sort of purchase and…
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Day 3 – Off to Bundeena
Vegemite isn’t very good. I tried some with breakfast this morning and was not pleased. I might try some again later, but I’m really going to need to talk myself into it. It tastes like soy sauce, and that is not something I want to taste on any of my breakfast foods unless it is…
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Day 2 – Wandering and killing time until sleep
We finally made it to Australia, and it’s time to terrorize some kangaroos. Just kidding! We landed on time, and set about getting through customs. First, was a card which we had been given shortly after takeoff. This needed to be filled out with details about our stay. Second, was a declaration that we had…
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Day 1.5 – Can we sleep yet?
November 19th, 2014, didn’t really exist for Angie and I. We departed LAX before midnight on the 18th, and we landed in Sydney on November 20th. This day was sucked into the void never to be heard from again. However, I can share that spending fourteen hours on a airplane is akin to cruel and…
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Day 1 – Opressed by the system
It was time to begin traveling to the land where I could terrorize kangaroos. Angie and I took a taxi to the airport and arrived well before the flight was scheduled to leave. This was primarily due to not having checked luggage in a long time, never having checked luggage outside of the country, and…
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Pre-Australia Trip
It really hasn’t sunken in yet that tomorrow Angie and I will be headed nearly half way around the world to Australia. It all started as a flippant comment over dinner one night. I’m approaching a birthday, a decade birthday to be a smidgen more precise. While I don’t normally buy into these things, it…
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Will I run again?
My wife and I went for a walk along one of my running routes in the warm Spring sunshine. Seeing the trail brought back a flood of memories as we walked along. A recent Runner’s World Quote of the Day came to mind
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What does the Union Pacific Railroad and I have in common?
We were both on the course at the 2013 Run Like Hell Half Marathon today. Seriously. This race has a colorful history for me. My first time was in 2009. It was available shortly after the Chicago Marathon and I figured that if I was all trained up for a full marathon a half would…
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