I HATE the "traveling" part of traveling.
I feel like I should take some time out of the interesting blogs to inform you about some of the realities of adventure. To get places you need to patient, VERY patient. Last week I left Panorama where I took a greyhound bus for 14 hours to Vancouver, arrived at 5am and went straight to Vancouver airport. Then I waited till 8am when my flight to New York City arrived and spent 4 hours to fly to Phoenix where I waited another hour and a half for the connecting flight that took another 5 hours to get to NYC. Lets total that...basically 27 hours waiting with no sleep.
Yeah I had a great time in NYC (you can read all about that soon in the blog entitled "Problems with my sleep"). However, I had to go with Dim to JFK airport early because the taxi was too expensive to catch by myself back to the airport later. We arrived at 8am for her flight, and mine wasn't until 8pm! So that's another 12 hours of straight waiting at JFK airport doing nothing, my Ipod ran out and I didn't have the charger, no computer or any form of entertainment. The flight was 6 hours to Portland getting in at 12 midnight. My connecting flight didn't arrive till 7:05am; so another 7 hours of waiting at that time in the morning before a one hour flight to Vancouver where I came back and immediately have to go out and look for jobs (no luck so far!).
In conclusion, you don't realise the amount of actual travel involved in traveling a country before you get it. Back in Australia I looked at it and thought 'Hey, if I catch this red eye flight and wait for 12 hours I can save $40! I'll be able to rough that out for sure, it's all part of traveling right?'...WRONG, a little tip to all the budding travelists (yeah I just invented a word) out there, spend the extra cash and save the discomfort...you spend that $40 waiting around the airport on magazines, fast food and stupid souvenirs anyway!
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