LuluManhattan goes to Sydney

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I'm leaving this afternoon on a business trip to Australia. I'm super-excited and have been dreaming all week long about the 80 degrees weather, the warm turquiose water and the spectacular views I'm going to experience. I've heard that Sydney offers up the very best of San Francisco and Rio. What more could I ask for!

This is only my second trip to the Southern Hemisphere, the previous one being to Argentina. There's something magical and mysterious in being so far away from home in lands which seem so much more wide open than ours. I remember flying over the Pampas before landing in Buenos Aires and feeling literally out of this world. I think this feeling will be even more amplified down under in Australia.

Stay tuned for an eyewitness account of Sydney. I do have meetings all day but I suspect that jetlag will offer fine opportunities for blogging. I can already picture myself totally wired at 4 am, furiously typing on my laptop while I wait for the sun to rise over the Sydney Harbour.