Everybody was up and ready to depart the hotel at 9:30am. The drive to Alamo car rental was easy and uneventful. Once we had dropped the car off and were on the bus to the airport I realised I had left my baseball cap from Randy in the Jeep. After checking our bags in I went back to Alamo, but the jeep had already been rented and the cap had not been found. We grabbed lunch to pass the time at Raleigh airport at 42nd oyster bar. I went for the Carolina classic ...

Our wake up call got us going at 02:30am NZ June 12th. The shuttle was ready to take us to the airport where we the first to check in. Security was not open however so we waited patiently as the crowd around us grew. Eventually we got through, only to have another wait as the flight was delayed by half an hour. The flight itself was slightly bumpy in places, thankfully not during breakfast though. At Brisbane the sun was shining & we had to pass throug...