Melbourne


 I’m at Melbourne international departure lounge…

I obviously jinxed myself by posting my flight departure time in cyberspace. My nice simple itinerary of Melbourne-Aukland-Santiago-BA (17 hours) has morphed into Melbourne-Los Angeles-Santiago-BA.   Double the transit time, plus a nice 6 hour wait at LA.  The LA thing comes complete with security overkill.

 I guess you didn’t need to know that, but I felt the need to share.  Promise the posts will get more interesting once I hit BA.


Don’t like keeping a diary. Travelogues bore me – and I’ve said for a couple of years now that I have no interest in keeping a blog. 

And yet, here you have it.  Shannon’s travelblog. 

The plan is to post a brief (really brief) outline of what I’ve done each day.  When I come back to Melbourne, I’ll restrospectively post photos to produce a Nice, Chronological, Subject Indexed Photo Album.  Huzzah!

Of course my mum will be expecting a bit more than a tawdry list throughout September - so – pending completion of the Grand Plan, I’ll try and post a few pictures every couple of days, along with some interesting commentary.  Feel free to check in every few days (or not) to see what I’m up to.

Plane leaves 10:55, Wednesday morning…