26 March : Port Douglas --> Sydney

We leisurely awoke and finished packing to leave hot and humid and buggy Queensland for a journey back to Sydney.

As we left the hotel, we went into downtown Port Douglas for breakfast and then made the beautiful coastal drive to Cairns to catch a flight south. We turned in our final rental car and made an uneventful flight back to Sydney.

The craziest part of the journey was 20-25 minutes in a taxi with a driver pushing the Koran on us the whole way into downtown. He was full on preaching the peaceful, happy, positive, embracing version. As we left him, he told me I should read it.

+Jill, and her Amex, got us upgraded at the Four Seasons for the final week. I am calling it The Final Countdown. Jill is referring to it as Closing Ceremonies. Our room has a view of the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge so we can take it in multiple times daily in comfort before we leave.

We ended up walking to dinner at a great seafood place (I had a garden salad and chicken). Then we had a nice stroll back before staring at the view for a while from the room.