Taking Flight (Day 1)

TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED

BY THE THINGS THAT YOU DIDN'T DO THAN THE ONES YOU DID DO.

SO THROW OFF THE BOWLINESS. SAIL AWAY FROM SAFE HARBOUR.

CATCH THE TRADE WINDS IN YOUR SAILS.

EXPLORE.

DREAM.

DISCOVER.

Mark Twain


12 pm - Thanks Mark, Well here we are folks back on the road to adventure. As I write this I am sitting inside the Vancouver Public Library, a large beige brick building that sits in the centre of this sprawling Canadian metropolis, a tranquil little corner filled with refference and fiction... But I'm getting ahead of myself, let me go from the start.

4 am - GAH!! Why am I up so early? I mean if you really want a domestic light who in their right mind puts it on at 6am? Well apparently Qantas do ... but I guess that isn't too bad, the sooner I leave the sooner I arrive and the sooner I get back to sleep.

6:30 am - Okay I'm on the flight now, still rather tired but getting better. Before I began typing this I was sitting reading the paper with 2 business people on either side doing the same thing. For a moment I began to feel almost like an adult, as though I had risen past my teenage mindset and into the realms of manhood.. That feeling quicly deflated when I not only saw they were reading the business section whilst I was reading the funny pages... baby steps I guess.

8 am - Arrived in Sydney and I've had everything done and I'm just waiting for my flight... so tired.

11 am - I'm on the flight and on the way, Air Canada is turning out to be pretty good, whilst they dont have much of a menu for lunch or snacks (pretzles being the best option), they do give a free bottle of wine to all the flighers, I now have a bottle of Merlot 2010, I am dead serious.

4 pm - Okay so its been 5 hours and how tired I am is becoming unberable, so I'm going to sleep. Nighty night.

5 pm - For the first 5 hours of the trip the plane flew like a breeze and then, as it always is, the pilot in his infinate wisdom leans over and nudges his mate saying "oy, why don't we fly through that terbulance over there", so now I'm up and grumpy.

9 pm - 5 hours... I have 5 more hours on this plane.... SOMEONE GET ME OFF THIS THING!!!

2 am - I'm just about to touch down, thank goodness. My computer clock tells me it is 2 am, so hopeully I can get to my accomidation quickly.

3  10 am - So apparently I may have not counted on the time difference, and as such with only 3 hours sleep over the past 24 hours I now have to keep my self awake (in order to beat jet lag) for at least another 10 .. AAHHHHH!!!!!!

12 pm - And thats how I ended up here. After leaving the airport I caught the monorail into the city centre and found my way to my hotel. After dropping off my things I headed here to fix up my emails and alike. I was planning on posting this, now but I rather think I'm going to read Game o Thrnes for a tad.

7 pm - Have you ever fallen asleep in a public library? Cause I have now.. whoops. Bu the final update for today is that I leave you with this helpful piece of advice, Never upsize anything unless you are majorly hungry, even a restaraunt meal, they are seriosuly huge. And now tomorrow I head off on the Contiki tour an then... well who knows?