So apropos...

I have arrived in Australia. Last night Rikki and I landed in Sydney, caught a connecting flight to Brisbane, and slept in the airport until she got on the next plane to Cairns.
It was extremely weird flying out of Vancouver and saying "Peace out!" to the land mass I've been born, raised, and living on for the last 22 years.
I learned something along the way though. The further away from Canada you get, the more bitchin' the airplanes. Progressively, each flight had a better airplane, with wicked ass GPS effects, and full on meals, and what seemed like 40 flight attendants.
I still didn't sleep though!
For some reason my body does not allow me to sleep while sitting up, nor while slightly reclined. I basically chugged on flight red bulls to stay awake for 3 days straight because I was trapped in this weird, unable to sleep but extremely tired limbo if I didn't.
Honolulu airport was shit. It's an extremely awesome building though. Essentially, the entire structure is open, being that there is not really any exterior walls or doors in the entire thing. Rather, because it's so humid I imagine, it's just one big patio. There was no where to sleep though, and Rikki and I ended up sleeping on a bench for only 3 hours while I snored and scared people passing by.
Right now, I'm extremely tired and am sitting in my friend Ailsa's room trying to recover from the lengthy ass flight. Her and I are going adventuring the next 4 days, she has them off from work. I've compiled a list of things to see in Brisbane and the area. The Storey Bridge, Australia Zoo, Gold Coast beach. The landscape here is gorgeous. All hills and plants and oceans and rivers. Beautiful. Ailsa has informed me though, that I do only have the week to stay here with her and find a place to work and live, which may have planted a seed of altering my plans. A week (excluding the days of sightseeing) is an extremely short period of time to find work and a place to live, which has made me extremely nervous. But, I was in pretty much the same situation when I moved to the mountains, and that worked out all right. :)
We'll see where this week takes me, for now, I'm just happy to be here.