“We were flying to Brisbane via Kuala Lumpur, a journey of around fifteen hours, including the brief transit stop. Australia was a long way from anywhere yet modern aviation had made travel so convenient and affordable that no one really thought of it as difficult or hazardous anymore. Today’s travel woes centered around overcoming jet lag or figuring out your duty-free limits. I tried to imagine life in the eighteenth century when the First Fleet made the long and arduous sea voyage from Great Britain. The aviation industry was non-existent at that time, steam-powered ships were still decades away and the sailing vessels that arrived in 1788 took over a hundred days to reach Sydney.” TravelAustraliaAviationTravel WritingTravellingAviation HistoryTraveling In Australia Book:Red Earth Diaries: A Migrant Couple's Backpacking Adventure in Australia Source: Red Earth Diaries: A Migrant Couple's Backpacking Adventure in Australia