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Australia 2006 - Back to Arizona


Back to Arizona 2006-07-02
 
The Brisbane Airport almost looked like LAX with the huge line for Qantas.  By the time we finally got to the checkin, the agent was guessing that this was due to the summer vacation period in the US, coupled with the two-week Winter school holiday in Australia.   

The flight was delayed and we barely made our connection to America West/US Airways to Phoenix.  We though that our luggage probably did not make it and I was in the process of filing a claim when our bags finally appeared.  

Our parking garage driver told us that they had closed the lot (a private lot run by Parking Company of America) for the first time in his several years of working there.  He said that all the lots are jammed full these days.  Our car was hemmed in my double parked cars, which the drive moved.  It appears that record numbers of people are traveling by air in this northern hemisphere summer!  

Since getting back, I have so far turned on the windshield wiper five times when I meant to hit the turn signal.  These are on opposite sides of the left-driving cars in Australia, and are really the only thing that is switched, other than the driver.  At least I have not driven on the left side of a two way road.  It is 105 deg F in Phoenix today – not as hot as it can get, but still like an oven as the monsoon humidity is rising.  Good reason to try and get away from here.  Flagstaff should be nice now, though probably with a lot of Phoenix traffic.  It will be good to be home again…
 
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