I Visited Australia—And RELEARNED What It Means to Be American | Day 9

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Andrew Bustamante

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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I recently returned from a trip to Australia where I was reminded how the world views America. I flew through airports without TSA or heavy security, and learned how Aussies see the terrorist attacks from 9/11. For anyone with Australia travel in mind, this entry is for you.

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0:00.0	I just got back from a 10-day trip in Australia, my first time down under.
0:10.7	And it was awesome.
0:12.1	But there's some really interesting things that I just wasn't expecting that I wanted to share with you.
0:17.9	Because for those of you who haven't been to Australia, for those of you thinking about going to Australia, maybe for those of you who have already been and know
0:24.4	exactly how shocking these revelations are when I share them again, the place is really pretty
0:29.2	amazing. It's shocking to be on a plane from L.A. for 13 hours, only to then arrive in a place that's not that different than the United States.
0:39.6	Now, I've traveled all over the world, and there are some amazing places in the world that are
0:43.2	completely and totally foreign to the United States. If anybody's been to Quebec City, or what's,
0:48.8	I think they call it Quebec in their own country, but if you go to Quebec City in Canada,
0:53.6	it's like going to Europe. It's a
0:55.3	completely different world. And you can literally get there by driving across the border in New York.
1:00.5	It's shocking, right? So I fly across the ocean. I land in Sydney. I get out of the, out of the
1:06.9	airplane on a gorgeous like 10 o'clock in the morning spring I guess their fall afternoon
1:13.2	and it really does feel like I just landed in L.A. Like I took off from L.A. only to then land in L.A. 13
1:19.7	hours later. Yes, they talk a little bit funny. Yes, the airport is nothing like L.A.X.
1:24.2	in Sydney. But otherwise, it's totally Western, wrong side of the road, wrong
1:29.3	side of the car, but otherwise, I mean, the faces, the diversity, the language is the same.
1:35.0	It's really not that different at all. So I'm really enjoying my time in Australia for the first
1:39.8	few days that I'm there. And then I have this conversation with a security professional,
1:43.5	somebody who's in the cybersecurity space, a client of mine down there that just an outstanding client,
1:48.4	outstanding business, really awesome person to work with. And the subject turns to the history
1:54.6	of 9-11, September 11th, 2001, here in the United States, the day that the Twin Towers
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