Sunrise in Brisbane Australia After over 30 hours of travel, we have finally arrived in New Zealand! SDSU students flew out on May 5 th from Minneapolis, MN and Sioux Falls, SD in three separate groups. While we all had the same destination, all of our flight experiences were very different. All but one student had flown before and others varied from having only flown once, to several times. Two groups flew from Minneapolis with one landing in Los Angeles (LAX), and the others landing in Dallas. The third group flew from Sioux Falls to also land in Dallas. From there, they traveled 14 to 17 hours to Australia with some landing in Brisbane and others in Sydney, with the final flight landing in Auckland, New Zealand. The flying experience was one some will always remember with a group of students flying out of Minneapolis having to experience the struggles of dealing with airport ticket errors while others had no hassle at all. With one delayed flight and a close call on making it a...

Not yet a full blog post for today. But do want to say we all completed the journey here. New post should be up perhaps in the next few hours. Sioux Falls Group Leaving for Dallas TX Finally Seeing the Coast of Australia After 17-hour Flight Plane We Rode from Australia to New Zealand Opposite Flowing Directions of Traffic