This is one country where he never was going to grab the gold medal in the long jump. And forget about anybody but an Australian winning the high jump. I tell you, there's no getting away from them. The bellman used a kangaroo to easily bound up to the 13th floor with my bags. My room service breakfast practically leaped through the door.
Small children ride little joeys rather than pedal bicycles to school.
Businessmen talk on their cellular phones while holding on to the reins of their strong-legged animals at stoplights. The police department's mounted patrol hops on kangaroos through the traffic around the Opera House and across the Harbor Bridge. Here is a land where Michael Jordan never even would have turned a head, where Vince Carter of the 2000 USA Dream Team hardly will make anyone blink. Of course, she is told, and we're not here to disabuse anyone of that notion. The world has not come Down Under to Sydney to discover a lively, vibrant, cosmopolitan, multicultural, travel poster of a city at the dawn of a new millennium.