After an early night we woke early feeling far more human. We hit the freebie breakfast of coffee and toast. Shopping is on the list for today to get some food in so we can have our usual low carb high protein kick start from now on but for today it did the trick. It's another gorgeous summers day, sunny and 30C early on, rising through the day to 38C. It's mostly clear but with a bit of a haze over the city from the wild fires. Driving around having a nosey i...

We get a second bite at Tuesday the 4th, arriving back in LA at 6.30am the same day we leave Australia. We stuck to our usual routine and after an uneventful if slow progression through customs and immigration we picked up a rental; a Nissan Altima this time around. It's pretty cool with keyless start, headlights on auto etc The hotel wasn't ready for us which is the usual situation but we always give it a shot just in case so we went shopping. We got some bas...

As is our usual way we were busy getting the business ready til after midnight and finally began to pack a little before 1am. We got about 3 and a half hours sleep before getting up in time to pack a box of goodies for a customer in NT. Our always reliable friends, Val and Grahm picked us up at 6.30 for the drive through peak hour traffic to the airport. Along the way we dropped Chads order off for the flight to Darwin and got to the departure terminal a littl...