The first day of the trip was about to begin for me- what
turned out to be a rather long Friday the 19th of October!
The day of departure began with a bright and early 6:00am start
in Brisbane. After finding all the family photos the previous night and
deciding it would be a good idea to scan them all I was a little sleep
deprived!
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| Family House Under Construction |
Luckily my good friend Ted has a heap of spare time at the
moment and was able to drop me to the airport, so after I said my farewells to
Mum and Ewan it was off and away!
Upon arrival to the Auckland Airport Em and I were planning
on meeting at the gate as neither of us were going to have mobile phones anymore;
however since the stopover time was a little long, no gate was nominated and it
seemed it might be a long wait to catch up. I decided to go for a wander around
the airport to see if I could bump into her and on my second lap of the
terminal she happened to be coming through the customs check in… what a fluke!
The 13 hour flight direct to Vancouver was much more
comfortable than it should have been due to the number of vacant seats. We
spread ourselves out and managed to get a good few hours sleep which is
uncommon for both of us! There were a heap of young Aussie kids on the plane
too – similar to our age all heading in the same direction… a sign of things to
come.
The Vancouver airport was quite nice and provided a bit of
an example of the BC wilderness as we queued in the customs and immigration
lines. We were finally there!.. Although it still didn’t feel like the massive
adventure - only a holiday. The full scale of the trip will eventually become a
realisation at some point.
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| Vancouver Airport |
During the trek through Downtown our packs felt much heavier
than the previous SE Asia trip! We were slightly out of practice and did not
have our bags setup right at all... None-the-less we easily managed to locate
the hostel with the assistance of some lovely locals at the airport and were
more than ready for a decent shower.
After the long day that it was we were both buggered and
ready for a decent sleep. We crashed at 7:30pm local time and crawled out of
bed in the morning at 10:30... the longest either of us have spent in bed for a
long while!
We were now ready to begin exploring the city of Vancouver.
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