We're On Our Way

Our bags are packed and we’re ready to go. I can almost hear Peter, Paul and Mary singing it. The day has come for our Down Under adventure to begin. Before we’re on the ground in Auckland, we’ll have flown more than 11,000 miles! If we weren’t crossing the International Date Line, we would arrive early tomorrow afternoon, less than 24 hours from the time we leave Charlotte. It seems amazing that we can make such a leap around the globe in less than a day. Because of the dateline crossing it will be Wednesday in Auckland, of course.


We’ve achieved our goals of keeping well under the baggage weight limits. We seem to have everything we’ll need for our three-weeks on the move, assuming that we can do laundry at least every four days. We have books and crossword puzzles and cards and our travel Scrabble for amusement. We will hope to sleep deeply over the Pacific.

When I think that powered flight was invented a mere 107 years ago by a couple of guys who ran a bicycle shop, I wonder what they would think of the way we hop around the world so quickly today. Even without the Concorde, we’re moving fast and pretty affordably, too. It’s actually stunning when you give it a thought or two.

Michael is here to take us to the airport, so my next post will be from somewhere else. Yahoo!