Back in Australia, and all is well. Denver does feel like a dream, a cold snowy dream. Huttah for snow! It was good to see.
The flight back was really long - 4 hour layover in LA. The woman next to me on the flight from Denver nearly had a panic attack on landing. One guy sitting next to me on the flight from LA was an alcoholic, sweating the entire time. The other guy next to me was a wine maker from CA, too talkative, kept interupting movies. So I lied to him. I was an engineer working in renewable energy, working for a small firm in Boulder that had contracts in Melbourne and Auckland. It was good fun.
Now I have to organize going away things for the folks I know here and prepare for NZ!