I am posting this from another newsgroup in the hopes of soliciting
suggestions
for the shortest possible current connections from the US to Australia
for diabetics and/or people with other health problems wishing to
travel to Australia from the US. Suggestions would be appreciated.

4. PJ O'Donovan
    Dec 26, 6:56 am   show options
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Date: 26 Dec 2005 06:56:28 -0800
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Subject: Re: One way car rental trip from Melbourne to Cairns
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<<.... foolish for anyone carrying a diabetic in any
case) but the fact that you landed in Cairns in the first instance,
presumably so enamoured by your initial 20 or so hours in a metal tube
that you elected to immediately spend another 6 in one on the way to
Melbourne when simply landing in Melbourne would have been both cheaper
and more convenient.
Diavolo>>

<Q, I am also diabetic...What if I arrive at an Australian airport
sick,
Donna Evleth>

You would minimize that risk by breaking the trip up into manageable
segments.

There were no direct flights from Honolulu to Melbourne when we visited
Melbourne in 89. Honolulu to Cairns was the shortest route into
Australia at that time and that route has been cancelled for some time
now.  When we visited Australia the last time in 98  we had to go
Honolulu to Fiji. We rested up in Fiji for a few days which was not too
hard to take and then went over to Brisbane from there. The Hnl/Fiji
flight is also no longer available the last time I checked.

My wife cannot tolerate any more than the 11 hours or so involved with
with the HNL Cairns segment or HNL to Fiji so I don't know what to
suggest for a manageable segment for a diabetic or someone with other
health problems to get to Australia at this time. We have a big
anniversary coming up and would love to learn of a manageable itinerary
of legs of 11 hours or less to get to the east coast of Australia.

Perhaps you or someone could suggest one.

One of the few French expressions I care to know:

DEJA VU!

136. PJ O'Donovan
       Oct 31, 3:22 am   hide options
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Date: 31 Oct 2005 03:22:25 -0800
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My wife is an insulin dependent diabetic and is uncomfortable on  long
flights due to neuropathy which is  a nasty side effect from 30 years
of diabetes. Her condition dictates that we break up a flights when
traveling into the shortest legs possible if if it means dog legging
sometimes

The Quantas flight from Honolulu to Cairns was the shortest direct
flight available to Australia at that time and even that was over 11
hours if I recall  making her very uncomfortable. We laid over for some
days after flying
into Cairns which was not a problem since the Cairns area is such a
beautiful place and we had never been there.

. After she recuperated from the flight from Honolulu to  Cairns,  we
took the flight from Cairns to Melbourne for the express purpose of
renting a car in Melbourne to drive up the entire coast of Australia,
see the sights leisurely over six weeks. We had arranged with the car
rental company when we reserved it to drop the rental car off in Cairns
when we met the return flight from Cairns to Honolulu and stay in
Honolulu for about a week, allowing my wife to recuperate before going
on to San Francisco, laying over there before catching the final flight
to Atlanta. Since we were leisurely sightseers in Australia anxious too
leisurely see the coast of Australia, the quickest way to get from
point A to point B was not a priority as it would have been if I was on
a business trip alone.

If you like I will detail how we got to Tasmania and back by breaking
it up into the shortest possible legs,,,,

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