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Step 1: Buy an Opal card

Step 2: Plan your trip using google maps (or if on Android) the Tripview app and head to the station.

Step 3: After entering a train station, make use of the indicator boards, make your way to the correct platform.

     3.2: Wait for the train to come to a complete halt, make way for passengers wishing to egress, then board that train.

Step 4: Exit the train at a place convenient to you.

> I’d suggest you have a smart phone that has Google Maps, as all transport options are available on there. Check it your phone is locked to your carrier in the US before assuming you can get a prepaid service here :)

To expand on this, this app is great for planning train, bus and fairy (edit: I'm leaving this spelling rather than hiding my shame) routes.

Not sure if you're Android or iOS, OP so here is links to both stores

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grofsoft.tripview.lite&hl=en

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/tripview-lite/id312389512

Hopefully this app is accessible from the US versions of these stores.

Hi!

TripView is probably your best bet, it's available on Android. There's a free and paid version, free is fine for most but paid saves your trips for later :)

Also has real time tracking and all that good stuff.

Get a good coffee machine. Live near where you work. Live near public transport. Public transport is great if you get the trip view app (or similar PT tracking app). Pay a bit more to live in an area with community life, especially if its walking distance and it will save you traveling for a social life. Never buy groceries from corner stores or petrol stations as their prices are stupid expensive. Gas instead of electric at home if you can. Line dry all clothes. Don't buy a console, but get a good TVPC and install steam instead. No telstra. No foxtel. No apple. No beats. All overhyped and expensive for no reason at all. Don't listen to domain.com about where the best suburbs are with prices. Buy rather than rent. Rent is dead money. If you are buying, remember that on-one buys their dream house the first time. You just need to get into the market with anything, as in a 5 years it will be worth more, and you can use that to buy a better house. Umm... did I mention the Coffee thing?

I can't help you with that specific problem but In terms of a basic inspiration for the list view on the mobile ....

Have a look at TripView, a public transport app for Sydney and Melbourne that has a suberb presentation of timetable data in a list view.

If you're budget heavy, you'll need to watch your transit costs, and preferably save yourself the hassle and just get an Opal, and whatever Melbourne equiv is. See wiki. Also tripview is your BFF, it's free. Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grofsoft.tripview.lite&hl=en Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/tripview-lite-sydney-melbourne/id312389512?mt=8

Cash! Australia is a cash country. Nobody takes AMEX, but Visa/MC will work many places. But if you're trying to be cheap, you will end up at a number of cash only eateries, esp for lunch. ATMs here do work with US bank cards, so just make sure you check in with your bank and they are not going to gouge you. Some banks (like Ally) have cheaper ATM fees than currency exchange. There's lots of ATMs here and are not hard to find, as most people use them heavily. They usually deal only in $20's and $50's. You don't see $100 notes around, so I don't know what it would be like to break one of those, but why would you want one of those anyway, it's just boring, and green, unlike our other bills. Be ready to carry change, as you'll care about more than just a quarter here, we do not have $1 notes, but instead have $1 and $2 coins, and the $0.50 piece is freaking huge and heavy.

Booze! Alcohol is expensive here, $10/glass sort of expensive. And a 6 pack will start at $20. So if you plan to do some drinking nights, plan for the cost.

Don't be so strict on your schedule, and get away from the tourist group outings, I'll bet you'll have more fun. Blue mountains: Replace with Blue mountains from www.sydneytrainwalks.com Do note their recommendations on safety. Such as caching GPS and map datas.

It's getting better, but we do not have a lot of free WiFi, so plan for this, check out sydneytrainwalks recommendations on walks without data, and get yourself some offline maps, tripview will help with your data-less life, while still managing public transit. Look at how much you use data and your phone for directions, and checking simple things in situations that are unknown to you. If you do this a lot, either plan to get data when you get here, or get the data cached offline. Depending on where you stay you may or may not get it or it may not be free. Most homes only have DSL, and it may not be the best, and if you have to share that, it will be less than fun. Many people are still on plans with low quota's, 40gb, 100gb, etc. Hotels may want to charge for access to their okay-ish nets.

Google Maps app will cache areas with great detail, use that for the cities. OpenStreetMap for the rest.

If you want phone data, check that your phone is not SIM locked, (your carrier can help), and look at getting Telstra or Optus pre-paid.

Food: I note you mention South Dakota, so you'll find a lot more cuisines here, and unlike certain parts of the midwest, you don't have to know to ask for the real menu with a 50/50 chance it has zero English to get the good food. Haymarket in the south city is quite a good area to look for food. Certain suburbs north and west of the city have heavy cultural influences and you'll find these are good areas to wander around for food too. Food safety standards here are very strict in comparison to the US, so even if a place looks like a dive, you'll probably be fine.

Now to be specific, and no mater how I phrase this, I do mean this only as suggestions, but the text doesn't read that way. Any ways, hope you have fun, try to not be too American.

Drop the rocks tour, just wander the rocks and opera house/circular key, then hit martain place, hyde park, town hall/QVB, then darling harbour. Split that up with a walk or light-rail to the fish market west of the city for lunch, get distracted out that way or come back to city for more wandering. Look up, a lot, lots of pretty heritage building and ceilings. Then, to finish this day off I'd say head to haymarket for dinner. Or Fish Market could be a Friday thing.

Next day, drop all that as you've got tourists and couples. Maybe go east/north east. Cremorne Point, or Watsons bay, then try and find a view of the city. Some pretty areas in both. Probably need more than that for this day, so taking a trip out west for dinner could be a nice padder, or maybe Frankies Pizza. Lunch out east or north east could be something "Aussie" by the location.

Those zoo prices are good, just make sure you're okay with the limitations on transport. Botanicals are nice. There are also art galleries nearby you could use to pad this day if you liked.

TrainWalks for blue mountains IMHO, that'll eat your day. Consider eating dinner wherever you do your walk, if it's a small town you'll be able to get something "Aussie" again.

For the last day, take some ideas that are low on your bucket list and keep them in mind, use this day as an explicit flex day. If you missed something, go back, if you heard something, do that, or find a place to chill. Find a after-work back alley hidden basement bar, they're fun.

A word of caution, some people, esp when drinking, hear American and just want to talk about guns and politics and badger, best to get away from those folks, they'll make your night miserable unless you freaking love that stuff.

Tripview.

Download tripview lite - best public transport app around - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grofsoft.tripview.lite