Another rainy day in Sydney. Just like any other day, apart from the fact that I have no place to call my own. That changes things a bit. It takes a while to get used to being a transient. We get on a plane to fly up to Cairns later tonight. Off to see the Great Barrier Reef. You know the one they had in Finding Neno? It looks just like that, but real. My goal is it see it before global warming wipes it away.

After a few days there, we are going to go down to Melbourne, and check out the other big city. See for myself which one is better. There is a Sydney-Melbourne rivalry over here, and I wanted to check to see what the actual differences are. Just like other 'my city is better' debates, such as Dallas vs Houston, Glasgow vs Edinburg or NYC vs LA, it is one of those discussions you can quickly get yourself in trouble if you slip up on your diplomacy. It's never been fun to get myself out of one of my why I hate L.A. diatribes.

It will be colder down in Melbourne, and then it will be all warmer after that. Some time in Sydney, then it's off to Arizona, via Fiji, then New York. Can't wait to move those boxes. Ugh.