Goodbye Australia, So Long Seattle...

The sun has set on my Australian adventure; I am back on US soil, feeling a bit like Jekyll and Hyde while coping with the jet lag that I avoided on the front end of the trip. Somehow on the return to the States, I managed to gain a day...I left Sydney on Tuesday at 1 in the afternoon and arrived in Seattle on Tuesday at 3 in the afternoon. Somewhere in there, I had 17 hours of flight time...slept not a wink from Sydney to Los Angeles and just a quick catnap between LA and Seattle. Tomorrow morning, I'm embarking on the four day cross country road trip to Chicago...2200 more miles to go to round out my 20,000 mile summer! What a once in a lifetime experience....