{"id":2598,"date":"2010-06-23T22:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T04:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/hello-sydney\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T05:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:09:36","slug":"hello-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/hello-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Sydney!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2606\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/hello-sydney\/2010-0624_lci_sydney_18\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 3GS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1277390007&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2010 Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0033557046979866&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18-600x450.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2606\" title=\"2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_18.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter 32 long hours, we are here in Sydney and I&#8217;m all checked in. The hotel is nice, the room nicer and I&#8217;m looking forward to some solid sleep. It&#8217;s 2:30 in the afternoon here and I&#8217;m going to unpack, get something to eat and try to stay awake until at least 6pm. Tomorrow the work begins first thing in the morning!<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2607\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/hello-sydney\/2010-0624_lci_sydney_17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 3GS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1277382444&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2010 Thomas Tomchak&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17-600x450.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2607\" title=\"2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_17.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI slept here and there on the flight, but probably not more than 7 hours. Of that I&#8217;m sure it was not really quality sleep. My butt was so numb I had to keep getting up to walk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">But all in all it was a good trip and I&#8217;m glad to be here. I&#8217;ll be here 13 nights before I head back home.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 32 long hours, we are here in Sydney and I&#8217;m all checked in. The hotel is nice, the room nicer and I&#8217;m looking forward to some solid sleep. It&#8217;s 2:30 in the afternoon here and I&#8217;m going to unpack, get something to eat and try to stay awake until at least 6pm. Tomorrow the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,4,43],"tags":[195,387],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-photo","category-text","category-travel","tag-sydney-australia","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-FU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2592,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/arrival-in-sydney\/","url_meta":{"origin":2598,"position":0},"title":"Arrival In Sydney","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"June 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;iPhone&quot;","block_context":{"text":"iPhone","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/iphone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_14-600x450.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_14-600x450.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-0624_LCI_Sydney_14-600x450.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2579,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/next-stop-sydney-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":2598,"position":1},"title":"Next Stop, Sydney Australia","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"June 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;iPhone&quot;","block_context":{"text":"iPhone","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/iphone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2528,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/seven-days-until-sydney\/","url_meta":{"origin":2598,"position":2},"title":"Seven Days Until Sydney","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"June 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo courtesy of Christopher Chan. 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