Leaving Adelaide on schedule we arrived into Sydney with enough time to tour duty free and then put our feet up (literally, in those nice recliners with matching foot rests) in the Qantas club to await our Sydney to Dallas flight.
This flight is actually the longest commercial flight in the world at 13,700 kilometres – slightly longer for us, at the back, in row 72. Actually, it wasn't too bad. The food was pretty good and the drugs did their job, I slept for a good stretch, Zoe not quite as well but we coped.
We had over two hours layover in Dallas, Fort Worth and when we were eventually disgorged from the plane, were looking forward to having a shower in the Qantas Club before flying on to New York. Unfortunately, our one hour fifteen minutes in the Immigration line slowly quashed any hope of that and after retrieving luggage and rechecking, we just made our flight. Luckily it was delayed by 15 minutes otherwise we would definitely have been waiting for the next one. So, another 3 hours 25 minutes in the air and the lights of NYC suddenly became apparent through thick cloud and intermittent rain.
Both bags appeared on the carousel and then it was off to join one last queue, this time for the ubiquitous yellow cab.
About half an hour later we were checking in to the Belvedere, pleasant enough and with very inviting beds given that we had been travelling for almost 30 hours!
A cup of tea and a Tim Tam later we were horizontal.
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