Dorothea MacKellar said it best – “I love her far horizons, I love her jewel seas, Her beauty and her terror, The wide brown land for me” – My Country. Enjoy my ramblings as once again we Travel Around Oz.
Time is the great constant of life. The simple fact is we get older and with getting older some might say we get wiser.
The intrepid team of Silver Schoolies having braved the road for 3 months in the last adventure are off again. Whereas there were time constraints last time as Silver Leader and Rose were using up Long Service Leave, this time there are no such constraints. Whereas last time (break downs aside) we had a time table to adhere to, this time we have only certain places we need to get to because of booking requirements, the moon and other factors but in between we have time. The Missing Link again will be missing. Family will keep them close to home this time around but Forbesy (still looking for Inga – more on that later) is along, at least until half way, where he will have to peel off to return for a family wedding.
The sledging of both of these will be merciless as it was last time for the Missing Link.
Covid has done its best to curtail this trip. Borders being slammed shut at various times, outbreaks here and there and the maddening hysteria that goes with it are bad enough but its the cessation of overseas travel which has manifest itself in those who may have travelled globally forced to curb their wundelast by seeking out the wonders of this great land, that will cause us the greatest angst.