I think I'll go to Australia now. Sitting, waiting for the airplane.
I will have a 10 hour flight to Sydney – almost straight South! – where I have to wait 10 hours to connect to a 3 hour flight to Cairns, whence a 2 hour drive to my mother's house.
Maybe 10 hours is enough to do something vaguely touristic in Sydney – there's an airport train there that connects to downtown, but according to the website, it will be closed for "track maintenance" tomorrow. I guess there might be buses. I'll definitely have to try something – 10 hours is too long to spend in an airport.
Anyway, I'll update from Sydney, somewhere.