Paul Jam - Paul Andrews' Blog - Dunsborough, Western Australia

My ticket for Bruce Springsteen. Incidentally, this was delivered to my hands only three days after I purchased it online from Stubhub. I was pretty impressed. Ticketmaster can't get a ticket for a Perth show to me that quickly and I'm only a three hour drave from them.

To make it easier, I'll be picking up my KISS and AC/DC tickets at the venue's will call windows. Becasue I have Peal Jam Fan Club tickets to the two Pearl Jam shows, a similar process wil ltake place but i wont know until I open the envelope where my seats are. At the 2006 Subiaco concert we were row 6 right in front.

The countdown to Roctober 2009 has begun and I'm still flat out with work, sport and family life to put much thought into the finer details of the trip. We're still in the stormy winter months here so getting away might be nice.

I really need to work out local travel plans on the ground in USA. I'm hoping to use local public transport where possible and given the number of travel advisor websites and google maps, you can pretty much do it all yourself these days - on the cheap. We got away with it pretty well last time and it was an experience sharing local public transport with the citizens of a city.

I leave Perth Airport at about 3am on the 2nd Of October, touching down in Los Angeles at 9am and hopefully sleeping most of that journey across the Pacific so I can wake to breakfast on the plane followed by a quiet day in or around my hotel getting used to the new timezone. This has never proven to be a problem in the past as I can usually change my sleep cycle a few days before the trip.

Luckily some major acts are touring while I an in USA for work purposes. The gigs look awesome!