'Airport' means WAIT in many languages...

The most tedious part of travelling by far... airports! Having left Honolulu at 4in the afternoon, we finally arrive in Savannah, Georgia this today at 3pm. Spent 6 hours in Chicago - only an hour longer than planned - which is pretty good for the busiest airport on the planet.

Being at Waikiki made us realise what fantastic beaches we have even in metropolitan Adelaide! Can't beat the tropics though, and the palm trees and frangipani's and hibiscus flowers. The kids took mum and dad on an aqua-cycle for an hour, out to the reef. Zoe helpfully suggested that I do the peddaling and she would do the steering...

Learning more than ever to 'check under the seats' for things left behind... as any parent will know. This trip is already too ambitious to contemplate returning to Hawaii [as nice as it is] for a vodafone hat and pair of goggles...

I know we've talked many times of our anxiety at carrying the alchemist's 'motherlode' around the world with us... in fact it has been very uneventful... New Zealand Customs [bless them for all their interest in soil on our shoes] actually confiscated a nice little jar of Buzz Honey instead of worrying about the 2kg of medications. It was nearly morning teatime... US Customs worried more about the fact that Jude attempted to walk through the metal detector without her boarding pass! SHOCK! So, at this stage all is good on that front.

The kids have taken the long, strange hours well in their stride. In the last 24 hours, they have slept only 3 hours, and that was under the seats in a Chicago departure lounge that held perhaps 150 people... I'm really proud of them.

Savannah is as beautiful as I remember. So southern. The welcome has been very very warm, and we are looking forward to a slow meandering week...

As they say in Savannah... baah now...