Category: Travel

  • Avianca Gate: 71 Seat: 28B (Middle) Plane: A320-100 Boarded: 12.38 Pushback: 13.00 Departed: 13.11 (Scheduled 13.05) Arrived: 13.47 (Scheduled 14.08) Duration: 36 minutes Distance: 183 kms This was the first of two flights included with the G Adventures Classic Colombia tour. This was an incredibly short flight schedule for 1 hour 3 minutes it turned…

  • Saturday 10 August 2019. Highlights: No transit driver and initially no hotel room, finally arriving in Colombia! Most of the night I found myself waking up every time I moved during my sleep due to a sore neck which was such a pain but by mid-morning it had remitted quite a lot so hopefully will…

  • American Airlines Gate: A38 Seat: 9A (Economy Window) Plane: A319 Boarded: 17.02 Pushback: 17.45 (Scheduled 17.45) Arrived: 23.02 (Scheduled 23.10) Duration: 5 hour 17 minutes Distance: 3,925 kms

  • When visited: August 2019 Time of day: Afternoon Rating: 3.5 / 5

  • Friday 9 August 2019. Highlights: Qantas Business Class domestic and international flights, Travel chaos Day 1 really started the night before on the Thursday. I returned from a Canberra work trip, came home changed, had a quick dinner with a friend and said goodbye to my young cats Boots and Juno. From here a train…

  • Qantas Gate: 8 Seat: 12E (Business Middle Aisle Upper Deck) Plane: A380-800 Boarded: 19.14 Pushback: 19.53 Departed: 20.01 (Scheduled 12.35 SYD) Arrived: 19.42 (Scheduled 13.00 DFW) Duration: 14 hour 49 minutes Distance: 13,804 kms This was the second leg of three flights to get to Bogotá, Colombia. The first flight was a domestic flight Melbourne…

  • Qantas Gate: 4 Seat: 3A (Business Window) Plane: B737-800 Boarded: 15.55 Pushback: 16.27 Departed: 16.34 (Scheduled 15.00) Arrived: 18.13 (Scheduled 16.25) Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes Distance: 706 kms This was the first leg of three flights to get to Bogotá, Colombia. I was originally booked on a flight that would have left at 09.00…

  • When visited: August 2019 Time of day: Early Afternoon Rating: 4.5 / 5

  • As a bit of work my world trip 2019 to Colombia, USA (New York), and Singapore this August has been completed. Here is the detailed plan – 2019 Colombia-USA-Singapore Plan.pdf

  • In early January 2019 I turned 45 years old and later that month my youngest niece Erin commenced high school, both events got me focusing on creating some short, medium and long term future goals. I decided to set goals into short term (12-15 months), medium term (3 years) and long term (6 years). The…