When you leave Brisbane at 10:40am and arrive at your destination at 5:00pm, you would assume your journey took 6 hours and 20 minutes - mathematically speaking. HOWEVER, you would be incorrect.

After a night in The Kingsford Smith Motel in Hamilton, we set off for the airport on the free shuttle bus. While waiting to leave we watched a P&O cruise ship dock at Portside, Hamilton (visible fom our bedroom window).You might ask why we would bother to spend a night in Brisbane before this trip? Easy, have you seen the M1 heading to Brisbane any weekday morning? You just can't afford to be caught in the M1 carpark and miss your flight! We had a healthy breakfast as we know from past experience, future breakfasts for the next month will consist of donuts, bagels and pancakes.


We boarded our flight a bit early and spent the next 14 and a bit hours watching movies and playing games on the inflight entertainment. We arrived in Vancouver at 7am - almost 4 hours earlier than we had left Brisbane! Have we travelled back in time?

By the time we cleared customs for entry to USA - in Vancouver???? it was almost time to board our flight to Newark. This flight was full and we found ourselves in the 2nd last row, handy if you need a toilet or quick access to an exit! Lucky for us the flight was uneventful and we had no need for the emergency exit. We arrived in Newark right on time at 5pm Wednesday 14th September, New Jersey time, 25 hours after we left our motel in Brisbane.


Shuttle bus to our motel, pizza for dinner, a lovely hot bath and ready for bed. Tomorrow we pick up our car and start exploring. Goodnight and sweet dreams.