Day 1 - Perth Airport

Well the journey begins, I arrived nice and early as the flight was early and didn't want any of the family having to then go home to continue the day without any sleep. Tom drove me in and being that it is an international journey I thought we would start by going to Perth International. Got the photo out the front which included the name Perth International Airport. Then upon checking found that I needed to be at Terminal 2 which is the domestic airport.


This is why its a great idea to get their early, so we jumped into the car again and headed over to the domestic airport. Then had a coffee and muffin with Tom before sending him home while I waited for the desk to open. So now at 4:45am sitting in the Qantas Club Lounge waiting for my call. The best part was I found out the upgrade I requested was approved so the long leg from Sydney to LA will be business class. :) Happy!


I have tried for quite a number of years to get upgraded and finally I have made it. Finally received an email from Apple who have agreed to a meeting at the head office which is great. So for my first week I will be visiting Apple, Google, Oracle, SAP, Fujitsu and Stanford University. So a busy week ahead as well I will be doing some sight seeing. Catching up with a good friend who moved form Melbourne to work at CISCO. We are going to fly along the cost in a small Cessna, this will be fantastic and I will have camera in tow.


So for now no pictures but hopefully I can upload them once I am in SF. 


Signing off for now 5:10am Perth

My final day at work before heading off

9 days, 13 hours, 48 minutes and 17 seconds
till my Churchill Trip - 11th May - 13th July 2012

The time is drawing close and I will commence my trip for my Churchill Fellowship. For the people who will be following this blog I make no promises to the grammer and spelling. I will endevour to be correct but sometime things happen. :)

My goal is to blog each day but the first one or two may be late as I will be in a number planes for upto 17 hours and waiting for some others. All up I should be flying and travelling for close to 20+ hours. But the best part is I am flying back in time. I leave Perth at 5:45am on the 11th May heading for Sydney. From Sydney to LA and then San Francisco. I leave Sydney at 1:30pm on the 11th May and arrive in San Francisco at 1:30pm on the 11th May. So it will be a long trip but I won't lose much of the journey :)

I will have camera in hand and taking photos all the way. For those who know me this is but one of my hobbies that I really enjoy so I will endevour to photograph as much as I can. The last trip I took was for 6 weeks and I had taken 3000 photos I am quite sure in the 9 Weeks on my Churchill and the week going to a conference in Sri Lanka I will break that barrier.

For those who did not know I have been invited to attend a FutureGov Conference in Sri Lanka talking with many IT govenment representatives from around the Asia Pacific to be a member of a Panel discussing e-Government and the use of Mobile technology. So as part of this blog I will be reporting on my attendance to that conference.

So I will sign off for now and my next posting will be the beginning of my trip. If you have any questions please post them to this blog and I will attempt to answer all questions.