Making Our Way to Sydney

Since Elizabeth (my wife) was the one making all the arrangements for the trip, I didn't know we were actually making two stops, the first one in Los Angeles, and the other one in San Francisco. I tried to sleep on the first flight, but I barely closed my eyes for a few minutes. Once in LAX (the code for Los Angeles International), I spent all the connecting waiting time looking for a power outlet to charge my laptop's battery a little. Airports that big really need to make more power oulets available to the public, as more and more people, regardless of their occupation are using laptops and traveling with them. With my laptop's battery at 30%, we left for San Francisco.

The other thing I noticed is the lack of Verizon hotspots at these airports. As a Verizon DSL susbcriber, I'm entitled to free use of their hotspots. However, none was to be found on any of the airports we passed through. At LAX, I detected a pretty good connection from a T-Mobile hotspot, and at SFO, there was something called Boing. I don't travel a lot, and I don't see myself jumping between airports too much in the future, so why should I have accounts with these guys (between $20 - $30 a month, each) just for being able to check emails and blog from the airport?

Anyway... we had to wait three hours for our connection to Sydney, so we had dinner and plugged the laptops for full charged, as we purposedly brought work to do, so we could avoid getting bored during the 13.5 hours flight. Oh yes, I said 16 hours before I realized I was wrongly adding the 3 hours of waiting at the airport. I was planning to work on my presentation during the first hours of the flight and then try sleep, so I would be fressh enough when arriving in Sydney in the morning. But it turns out that even after 24 hours awake, I just can't sleep when flying... I mean, I slept by inertia at intervals, but not as one should to be well rested.

That's how we made it to Sydney. We are just finishing unpacking, and I'm hacking a wireless access point to post this entry

I'll be posting some pictures and updates later tonight.