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Getting To Western Australia

Travel overview:
Monday 
AM
7:30-8:00 Driving to Centrelink in Bairnsdale with my sister Gabby 
8:00-9:30 Waiting in the Centrelink queue with a billion other newly unemployed
9:30-10:15 Packing a 'suitcase' for a trip which could be anywhere between 2 to 8 months long
10:15-11:00 Driving to mums and having a frantic shower

PM
11:00-2:30 Driving to nannies to drop off my car which she insists will be eaten by rats if left parked on the farm (this time also includes stopping at Maccas for nugs and the weighing of suitcases) 
2:30-4:30 Gabby driving me to the airport #legend 
4:30-5:30 Waiting for a plane to Adelaide (praying that the board with tonnes of red flight cancellation messaged didn't add mine to the list, oh and also trying to avoid people in general)
5:30-7:00 On plane to Adelaide (no one in the seat next to me, winning!) 
7:00-9:00 Waiting for connecting flight in abandoned seats eating more nugs (stressing about my bag being the only one without a 'connecting flight' tag on it, was I meant to add that myself?) 
9:00-12:30 Thanking my lucky stars that I was actually on the plane to WA (albeit that I was sitting in between the two most tattoed men on the plane who just happened to keep coughing)

Tuesday 
AM
11:30-4:30
Greeting dad and Riley at the airport then driving back to dads house (a few minor hiccups along the way; dad only got lost twice) 
4:30 BEDTIME in my own bedroom that dad set up so beautifully for me <3 

All up it was just a fleeting 21 hours in transit