WE HAVE ARRIVED!

Finally, after over 36 hours of airports, flights, missing flights, we have arrived in Cairns, Australia.

I met up with Carlos, Sarah and Spencer in DC. Then we met Allen and Suzy in San Francisco and finished our long journey together! It was quite an adventure itself! I can only dream what the Crocodile Trophy will be like!

We missed our connecting flight from Sydney to Cairns, and had to take a detour to Brisbane and wait there for a few hours , but we made it here safe and sound! Not one piece of luggage lost! All 9 of them made it!  Patrick cannot say the same, though!  2 of his bags were lost. We found one, the one with his bike wheels, spinning around at the baggage claim at the airport and brought it over to the hotel. Now we are keeping our fingers crossed that the rest of the bike will show up by tomorrow afternoon. 

The only one that is not here yet is Andrew, but he should arrive at some point tomorrow too! Then the Team will be complete!

We are staying at the Hides Hotel, a quaint building right in the center of the action. Nothing fancy, but very welcoming and close to everything, which will come in handy since we do not have a car to drive around yet.

We met Patrick and Herman at the hotel and had our first “meeting” over pizza just a few blocks away.

Tomorrow the agenda includes: meeting, shopping for supplies and setting up the bikes.

Right now… it’s time to go to sleep… because  no matter how you cut it, 15 straight  hours inside a plane going over the Pacific Ocean makes for a long night!