Rhonda Bracey: At Random

I hardly slept last night, wondering if the alarms would go off – what is it about knowing you have to be up at a certain time and so you don't sleep well all night because you don't trust that this 'foreign' alarm clock in your room will work?

The Airport Shuttle was due to pick us up at 4:45am; when it hadn't arrived by 5:00am I called a cab. Which turned up just as the Shuttle did. Oops. Had to apologise to the cab person and let them go.

We were checked in at Launceston airport all the way to LAX, so now it's a matter of the short flight to Melbourne, a 3.5 hour wait in Melbourne, then the 15 hour flight to Los Angeles.