Getting from PDX to Sydney, Australia is a labor of love. It’s a full day of travel, including a 15-hour long haul over the ocean that will set you back more than a grand. That’s provided you can get enough time off work. And yet, it remains as a top wish-list destination for American travelers. A Gallup poll placed Australia as a Top 5 vacation destination for Americans, if money were no object, trailing behind Hawaii and Europe.