Monday, June 12, 2006

Queen's Birthday

I was on the train this morning, going into town - not a work day, so was relaxed at an 11 o'clock trip in, and overheard a conversation a couple of seats away. A woman was describing her trip up to Darwin from Adelaide on that Ghan train, and also got onto the fact that she had been on the Indian Pacific a few years ago - Sydney to Perth, and also had worked for the Air Force up in Katherine.

Hearing her tales of travel without a passport - ie, internally within Oz - got me to thinking how little of this country I have seen. And for some reason, maybe the fact that I am reading a book about a Melbourne girl who did a Greyhound bus tour of the USA, I thought about doing a bus or train or car trip around Australia myself.

The starting line would of course be Brisbane, and then would it be Kingaroy or Maryborough? Maybe Maryborough on the way up to Mount Isa, Kingaroy on the way back (otherwise you would double up somewhere between Darwin and Adelaide somewhere). Maybe Melbourne to Broken Hill to Alice Springs, and Adelaide etc on the way back from Perth?

It really got me thinking, and would I write it up like a blog or book, or do a photography tour? Just thinking of all the weird and wonderful landscapes out in the big red land, as well as the man made stuff, like the country pubs and stuff.

Interesting thinking, and went to the museum and saw some good photos of the Outback there, which whetted my appetite for travelling around again. Though apart from the Egyptian exhibit that I went in there to see, there's not too much to the museum at the moment - or maybe it has all been transferred downstairs to the Science Centre.

Something to think about perhaps, a big trip...

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