Geek in Sleet: Off and arriving

Okay, so it's the end of the day, or a least the end of our day, although our bodies do not think so in the least.

It's Wednesday 9th, 11:26 pm, again, our bodies don't think so, and our brains are having trouble with the logic of the situation too. We think we probably chased 3:00 pm yesterday for five or six hours as we flew with the sun.

Anyway, we're in Atlanta, both Adam and I, and very happy to be here.

Our flight was as painless as it could possibly be, we both feel. It was, in short, really tiring and unpleasant, but not bad and had moments of excitement amidst the sitting down boredom of most of the twenty five hours.

We flew from Melbourne to Sydney, and changed over to a big plane for the long haul to Los Angeles. That was fifteen hours, and I slept for three of them, read for another three, drank wine from a tiny bottle (okay, several bottles) with Adam for "some" of them, and was quite bored for the rest. Los Angeles looks amazing from the air. It appears to be suburbia that covers the land until the mountains finally eat it up, or the water front dissolves it. It's quite amazing, I've never seen a modern city that covers so much land with such low housing density.

We then had a four flight to Chicago, which looked like pea soup fog (we were covered by fog until a hundred metres from the ground) and then the darkness of night, so I'm afraid I have no idea what it's like from the air. The flight was a bit dull, but we knew there was only one more leg.

The final leg being to Atlanta, of course. Two hours of turbulent flying on a small plane that only had around a dozen people on it.

We arrived, probably got ripped off by a limousine driver, and were driven out to our hotel, which looks terrible from the outside, but is fine on the inside. Aside from road signs showing fractions, the other thing to strike us so far is that power points don't have on / off switches, which makes us feel strangely uneasy.

I've attached photos of the last twenty four hours, taken here and there along the way.

Note:
I can't work out how to upload pictures in an elegant manner to this blog, so I'll upload picture sets to flickr, and link to them from here.
They'll all be at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bajinaji/

This is, specifically, the first day's photo set: Photo set 1