“If I take one more step, it will be the farthest from home I’ve ever been”.

Just got my ticket for Sydney today. It will officially be the farthest I’ve ever been from home, though not by much. Clocking at 23 hours and 50 minutes of flight time (one way), with a destination 16043 kilometers from Montreal, this trip beats out my Indonesia journey by only 35 minutes of flight time and less than 200 kilometers.

I’ll be arriving in Australia on my birthday, although I’ll biologically still be 33 because of the time difference. The client expects me to be sound enough of mind to take intelligent part in a three-hour meeting that very day, but I doubt that my one extra day of youth will compensate for the brain-melt of the journey. Then we have two days of presentations and meetings, then come home.

We leave Sydney on the 17th, get to Honolulu on the 16th, and get home on the 17th. We will have travelled 62 hours to be in Australia for 74. Holy Air Miles Batman!