Tag: Dallas

  • Monday 06 January 2025Highlights: Safely arriving in Dallas with my checked bag, leave extended by two days I woke up at 5.30 am to leave the Sheraton Miami Airport Hotel at 6.00 am via their Airport Shuttle. This was too early for the Sheraton Lounge to be open for breakfast but I had American Airlines…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Wednesday 13 February 2013 Highlights: 16 hour flight (Dallas to Brisbane), my bed back home. Because of the international date line Tuesday basically didn’t exist for me as I undertook the worlds longest plane trip back to Australia at 16 hour 15 minute and 13,363 kilometres, but luckily for me I had a business class seat…

  • Monday 11 February 2013 Highlights:  Great nights sleep, seeing Qantas Plane! A great nights sleep in a very comfortable bed. The included cooked to order breakfast was very nice – Embassy Suites are a very good hotel option. Checkout was supposed to be noon but reception let me push this back to 2 pm which…

  • Sunday 10 February 2013. Highlights: Flight back to USA and easy Border Control experience! I woke up earlier than my alarm with not enough time to get to sleep again so I just waited a while before hitting the shower. This turned out not to be ideal as my pickup driver turned up 20 minutes…

  • Wednesday 1 December 1999 Highlights: JFK Sixth Floor Museum. We could not get the AAA membership today so it felt like we wasted a bit of time trying to organise this and purchase of a car. We did however do a lot of walking around Dallas to take in the sites. We visited the excellent…

  • Tuesday 30 November 1999 Highlights: Air conditioning, friendly Texans We spent the day trying to organise a car for our trip around USA. The day didn’t start well when we overslept which I’m putting down to the time zone difference not being lazy but I guess we will see. Unfortunately the car insurance information haven’t…

  • Monday 29 November 1999 Highlights: Making it to Dallas Sleeping last night proved to be very different when we had two women next door fighting and crying over having to travel together which kept both Jon and myself up for most of the night before our alarms went off at 4.30 am. I felt like…