Our Trip Down
Under and Back
by Mike Souza
www.atra.com
Figure 1: Russell’s Transmissions, Gold Coast, Australia
F
or me it started in Ft Lauderdale.
My flight to LA was at 10:45
AM with an hour-and-a-half
layover in Dallas. I arrived in LA at
3:20 PM with an additional 8-hour lay-
over for my flight to Australia at 11:30
PM. Randall arrived at the airport at
about 8:30 PM; all he had to do was
drive an hour-and-a-half to get there.
The 14-hour flight is something
I wouldn’t wish on anyone, and we
arrived in Brisbane, Australia at 6:30
AM, two days later. Australia is one
day ahead of us and leaving at 11:30
PM on Tuesday is really Wednesday
in Aussie, so when we arrived the fol-
lowing morning it was Thursday. Now
that’s a long day!
We were picked up at the air-
port by Ken McIntyre from ATRA of Figure 2: Now we knew we were going to Aussie to be put to work doing a seminar,
Australia, a division of IAME (Institute but we didn’t know what kind of work they had in mind.
36 GEARS March 2010
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