Some numbers to start the US travel story:<\/p>\n
1 1\/2 = hours of sleep in the first 1 1\/2 days of travel<\/p>\n
2 1\/2 = hours spent waiting in line at San Diego Airport to pass through immigration<\/p>\n
3 1\/2 = hours taken to cut my hair at the school of hairdressing<\/p>\n
On the plus side of the equation:<\/p>\n
We have adjusted quite quickly to local US time (17 hours behind Australian EST)<\/p>\n
The poor harassed border security officer granted the requested 6 month visa with no questions asked<\/p>\n
I saved $80 (US) by having a novice hair dressing apprentice cut my hair<\/p>\n
Some more maths for you:<\/p>\n
We now measure distance in miles 1km = 5\/8 of a mile. We will be hiking about 2655 miles which sounds a lot less than over 4200km.<\/p>\n
We now weigh ourselves and our gear in pounds instead of kg. My starting wt is 51.7kg and Rob is 82kg. In pounds we are 114lb and 180lb. (1kg = 2.205lb)<\/p>\n
We are eating and burning calories instead of kJs (1kJ = 0.239 calories)<\/p>\n
The best one though is the temperature which is about 40 minimum and 90 maximum in the desert (1deg C x 9\/5) + 32 = 33. 8deg F)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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