{"id":7,"date":"2014-05-28T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epicmac.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2014-06-15T17:14:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T07:14:29","slug":"heading-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.epicmac.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Heading Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
I checked out of the hotel fairly early. My flight wasn’t until mid afternoon, but there was another part of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum<\/a> to visit called the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center, this one is close to Dulles airport. I arrived at the museum just after it opened at 10am.  This museum contains a SR-71 blackbird and the space shuttle Discovery, as well as many other interesting craft.<\/p>\n
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I could only spend 2 hours here before having to head to the airport. It was just enough time to walk around all the exhibits.<\/p>\n

I hopped back in my mighty Impala and looked up service stations so I could top it up. A 7Eleven was just 3km away so I headed for that. It was certainly there, but no fuel sold there. Onto the next one which involved lots of traffic a few u turns and almost getting t-boned when someone slowed and indicated they were turning in to the driveway I was turning out of, so I went, but then they changed their mind and floored it. I eventually located a service station and as you have to do in America I guessed how much fuel I’d need and prepaid inside. You can pay at the pump, but it asks for a zip code, which has to match the code on your credit card. No good if you’re using an overseas card.<\/p>\n

I’d dropped the car back and boarded my plane in no time. It was a day flight, thankfully without the seat back TV replaying the same advertisements. This flight was WiFi internet enabled, so I paid my $4 for 2 hours of access and enjoyed being connected at 37000ft. <\/p>\n

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 There was some lovely scenery out the window. I’ll have to come back and see it from the ground level.<\/p>\n

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I had four hours to kill in San Francisco before heading towards Australia. This turned into the ‘find the working power point’ game. There were many power points, but not many working. Eventually I found a free one that was working and charged up my phone, as it was a bit flat after the two hours of constant use on the cross country flight.<\/div>\n
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I headed to my gate and found my ship waiting.<\/div>\n
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I was almost in the same seat as the flight over. This time it was the isle seat. Some 14 hours and 45 mins later we landed in Sydney for a brief stop before flying back to Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Home and happy and tired.<\/p>\n

That was a fun week!<\/p>\n

Until next time Jeffles and America!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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