July 14-15th Over the Pacific

July 14-15^th Over the Pacific

Wow! What a flight! I thought that a 16 hour flight from LAX to Melbourne was going to equate to a 16 hour torture session but man was I wrong. Not only were the seats half-way decent but they each came with a personal entertainment system complete with an astoundingly large movie, TV, videogame, and music library. I spent the first 4 hours of the flight watching The Hunger Games and  Man on a Ledge, before popping some knockout drugs and passing out for a solid 8 hour nap.  Also, I need to clarify that the two meals we received were leaps and bounds better than I expected. Upon waking from my little snooze I chose to waste some time listening to music and screwing around with the videogame collection before turning on 21 Jump Street (not quite so funny without the group laughter effect) and finishing up the flight with a brilliant English Premier League season summary.  To say the least this was travelling in style.

A bit of housekeeping to follow:

I am composing this blog against my better judgement, being a student that avoids writing at all costs (I think I wrote one paper all of last year). I can’t promise anything from it either…for all I know this idea might end with this first entry but I promise to at least try to keep up with it in the beginning. This blog will have spelling and grammar mistakes, so if they make your reading experience to painful then tough luck go read a newspaper…no one is making you keep track of me (Dollister!). Great, now with all disclaimers aside let me explain that I am doing this so that someday I can hopefully, when they’re old enough, have enough memories to tell my kids or nieces and nephews or whatever the case may be about the incredible journey that I can already tell this is going to be. Feel free to  request information on any aspects of my journey and I will try to fit them in later posts. AH! Finally done with the boring housekeeping and on to the journey that has already broadened my world view and shocked my cultural awareness (If you’ve gotten this far I expect your either truly bored at work, or my mother is standing over your shoulder, and in either case I thank you for caring).