Sorry, forgot to do this yesterday: I did, in fact, make it home, arriving at my apartment at the stroke of noon -- which made my door-to-door transit time from the hotel in Sydney to here exactly 36 hours. I only felt a little tired, and stayed up until midnight -- then slept until 2 a.m., woke up, went back to sleep at 3 a.m. -- and just woke up a few minutes ago, just before 1 p.m. So maybe I was a bit more tired than I thought.

I'll be back today or tomorrow with some wrapup thoughts and a few final pictures. Right now, I've got to finish waking up (no small challenge; I could easily have gone right back to sleep) and go in and deal with my expense report at work.