Dante Davis's Inferno (updated 21/5/11 I mean 5/21/11, forgot I'm back stateside)

The 5 circles of hell:

Hobart - Melbourne
Melbourne - Sydney
Sydney - Los Angeles
Los Angeles - Memphis
Memphis - Washington DC

Each with its own pitfalls and perils. Sydney to Los Angeles will be the longest journey, but will it present the most challenging path? Only our young traveler will find out and only he has the chance to make it to hell and back again...and eventually to DC.

The first circle posed some danger - a window seat was given. However, the journey was short and made shorter by sleep. This stage was no problem for the traveler.

What will the next levels hold? We shall soon find out and find out the fate of our troubled traveler.

Update: 2nd level complete. Slept the entire way.

The traveler now finds himself before a daunting task. Hopefully sleep will once again carry him through...

Epilogue:

And sleep was able to help me through. I made it through unscathed and actually wasn't sick during my journey home (that is, until I got home and ate too much food but I knew that would happen).

It ended up being no where near as bad as it could have been. The only low-light being when I fell had a microsleep and spilled my coke all over my pants in just a way to make it appear I peed myself (so I got to deal with that on my last leg of the journey) but overall I can't complain.

I'd like to pay some special thanks to the makers of codeine, drammamine, immodium, and the antibiotics I'm taking; It was a team effort and you all played your part in helping me make it home. We'll never forget flights 16, 7309, and 1734....good times. Although I made it back, I still feel like I left a piece of me somewhere out there in Tasmania......that piece of course being part of my intestinal wall which ultimately I probably did leave there.

Sorry if the blogs have been somewhat segmented and disjointed the past few times; not eating for days on end seems to have a detrimental effect on thought processing. I'll be sure to make the last entry decent one.

I leave you with a picture of a kangaroo itching his belly (from a park in tasmania):

I really wish I had been prepared and took a video of this. This guy scratched himself for like 5 seconds and loved it.