This is my last night of an eight-month trip, not counting tomorrow night aboard an Air New Zealand plane. I go to the Cairns airport tomorrow morning, and 3 flights and 24 hours later, I will be in San Francisco! I am reading a good book - The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs - and with a newspaper, I should be set for travel entertainment. It is a quiet evening at the Northern Greenhouse Hostel in Cairns, not a very exciting end to the journey...but then again, it may be an accurate reflection of the tenor of my trip. I'll update with the rest of my journey since my last blog later!