Well, I guess I can stop faffing around about my bookings for the US. I’ve just made all the changes that I’m going to make.  I’m now arriving in sunny San Francisco a day earlier, which gives me a couple days with Charles (and the gang). This is the current plan:

Fri 31 Jul: Fly from Perth to Sydney. Spend time with Nick and Ade, and maybe see other Sydney-siders
Sat 1 Aug: Fly from Sydney to San Francisco. Get in around noon and crash at Charles’ place!
Tues 4 Aug: Fly from San Francisco to Montreal. I’ll probably crash at Ellen’s place the night before. We’re traveling together and it should be fun (even if it is a very rare non-Locus trip)
Tues 11 Aug:Fly from Montreal to San Francisco. Spend night at Charles’ place.
Wed 12 Aug: Fly from San Francisco to Melbourne.  Time to go that Melbourne convention I keep meaning to buy a membership to.
Mon 17 Aug: Fly from Melbourne to Perth. Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.

I’ve given up some time in Sydney, but hopefully I’ll see most people in Melbourne on the return leg of the trip. Otherwise, if you’d like to get together email me!  I’d like to see you.