Off to the US…

Well, it’s been a while. It seems like the last time I actually published a post was just under 11 years ago! It probably doesn’t mean much because I don’t think anybody reads this blog anyway!

At any rate I’ve unearthed it now as I’m heading off to the US for 3 weeks. And as much as I’m usually bad at keeping a record of my trips the snippets that I do have always make for enjoyable reading and reminiscing. So the plan is for me to record my travels here, how frequently and how often remains to be seen.

At the moment, we’re at 34.985ft, flying 835km/h and heading for Sydney. From there, I’ll be boarding a flight to Los Angeles, but I won’t have internet then so I’m making the most of Qantas WiFi now. (For those interested in tech you’ll get alight to know that the ping of my connection is 962ms!)

COVID has obviously kept me out of the air for a while and as much as I’ve been keen to travel internationally I haven’t really had a way to make it happen til now. I am looking forward to flying on an A380 – my first super jumbo since I was on a 747-400 about 25 years ago when my family went to Germany & Switzerland. I was hoping to use my point to upgrade to business which unfortunately didn’t come through, but I did manage to upgrade to premium economy so that should be reasonable on the longer flight.

Once I land in LA, I stay the night, then fly across to New York stay the night again and from there hire a car and drive up to UMass Amherst. That’s where my first event and primary reason for going will happen – Future Problem Solving International Conference 2022. This post has been surprisingly long so I think I’ll leave it there. Maybe shorter, more frequent posts may be the way to go…