SITTING IN SEATTLE AIRPORT
First rule of travel - make sure you have all you flights sorted out so that you know were you are going and stopping and when each flight leaves and arrives. 

Second rule of travelling - see first rule. 

Seems i didn't quite get that right this time - arrived in Hawaii a half a day ahead of when I thought I was.  Not that this  presented a major problem, in fact I was accused of doing to on purpose.  I can confirm that I was a bit surprised to see the sun shining on the decent into Honolulu when I thought it was 10pm. 

Taxi's in every country (except London cabs) seem to be the most dangerous part of any trip.  My cab driver coming into Seattle hit 75mph on the freeway in the pouring rain three times before I pulled my taxi basher out of its case and smacked him with it.  Actually a 75mph you really don't want him to turn around and start a conversation with you - chances are he's on something.  On the way back to the airport I did warn the taxi driver before he started no to exceed the speed limit.

Finally, despite my insistence that my flights out of the US were DIRECT to Melbourne and that was confirmed on the itinerary -   the nice fellow at the check-in gave me two boarding passes.  One for SYDNEY - MELBOURNE %^&*(!!  NOT what you need at the end of a tiring conference. 

No amount of checking my itinerary would have picked that one up - IT WASN'T ON IT!

Did you hear that KPN just bought Getronics?  Should have seen that coming eh.  My source tells me that the Australian business is going well so they shouldn't expect any um' right sizing activities.