It’s just 5 days to go now until we take off to London, Paris and Berlin. I still have so much to get done this week before we leave. Today I am taking the scooter out for one last ride, gymming, tanning and laundry. It sounds like an episode of Jersey Shore. I can’t wait till Friday night and Chris and I head to the airport. It’s going to be so much fun!
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Missing New York
It was a very quick and rushed trip to New York. It seems that I never have enough time there to do everything that I would like to do. I had a great time hanging out with my mate Jim there and running around Manhattan. I included New York in this trip for what some would say was a bit of a silly reason. I wanted one last ride on the Qantas 747 before they stop it’s service between LAX and JFK airports in July. It will be replaced with a smaller A330 plane (a continuation service from New Zealand). These 747s are getting quite old now and I would imagine that Qantas will start getting rid of them soon. This was the last 747 service from LA to New York. Sadly the crew operating this service were not a happy bunch.
Now that I am at home and back at work I am trying to work out how I can getting another long break to travel the world. I have very few holidays left at work, so I may have to be a little creative.
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USA in May
It’s just 10 days now until I leave to travel to California and New York again. And I can’t wait! It’s not so much about the destination anymore… I just like going on vacations overseas… anywhere! I’m sure I will be beating myself up again once I wake up with 4 hours still to go on one of those long hauls across the Pacific Ocean. The photo above was taken around this time last year as I waited amongst the masses at LAX for my flight to Melbourne. This trip will give me 6 days in San Francisco and 6 days in New York. I hope it is nice and warm by the time I get there.
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Trip Planning
I love the Qantas 747 but on the next trip to the USA in May I will actually get to fly on the Qantas A380 for the first time. This will be QF94 from LAX to Melbourne. I actually paid a little more to get onto this flight. The other flights are all on Qantas 747s and an American Airlines 767. The routing is:
Melbourne – Sydney – San Francisco – New York – Los Angeles – Melbourne
I will be staying for 6 nights in San Francisco and another 6 nights in New York. Can’t wait!
The photo above is the Qantas Airbus A380 just about to cross Sepulveda Blvd in LA.
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All Booked for the USA!
Well this is very exciting news. I have been holding off talking about this until all the bookings were actually made. The last time I tried to book a trip to the US this close to the departure date it all fell apart because I could not get all the bookings I wanted.
I’ve booked to travel to San Francisco 7th May and New York 13th May. I’m staying at the guesthouses where I stayed on previous trips. They both have a really nice feel about them. And since I am travelling alone it’s always nice to meet other travellers which rarely happens in a big hotel. Both cities are very exciting and I have friends in both places. It will be my 8th visits to San Francisco and my 5th visit to New York.
Now I’m hoping this huge collage of my previous visits to the US will load okay. You may have to download it to see the full size.
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Travels for 2010
With everything happening in the post above I’m trying to think about happier things… like when am I going to travel again. It’s seems that since taking 7 weeks off work last year I have finally ran low on vacation time. I’m actually thinking about possibly buying more time off from work. I only get 5 weeks off a year at the moment. I’d like to have 7 or 9 weeks off. That would allow me to travel more often.
For this year I have already bought a return flight to Buenos Aires. I just have to work out when I can take it. It was meant to travel in April but I am delaying it because of the surgery. And May is the beginning of their winter, so it will most likely happen around October now. So that means I should fit in a trip before that… and why not visit my old favourite… San Francisco! I’m thinking about an end of summer thing there would be nice. Perhaps another trip to the Folsom Street Fair again? The above shot was taking in SFO in Mel’s Diner last year just moment’s before I met Armistead Maupin eating there.