By natural inclination I've determined monthly blogging is enough.
I'm in Esperance, WA. Since I last blogged I've crossed the Great Victoria desert through what they call Spinifex Country. Visited the old Maralinga bomb testing site, dropped into Oak Valley and Tjuntjuntjara communites, left the desert via Ilkurlka and the Anne Beadell Highway. Came out the other side with a few reasonable stories, a flat tyre and a busted shock absorber. Sorted that lot and then developed a fuel line problem, which I'm still nursing. Stories haven't been thick on the ground since, but I live in hope. Closest I came to a good one was in Kalgoorlie, where I ran into a bloke driving a Rolls Royce with a bull bar. But he didn't want to be identified, which is a bit hard to avoid on video. Not due in Perth till next month so I've still got a few weeks to scratch around for more stories before I leave the less-populated areas.
It hasn't stopped raining for a week down here and the forecast tips another week of the same. That's the only reason I'm updating this blog: to give myself a break from editing. Haven't quite caught up with the latter yet, or kept pace with the book chapters, but any more rain and I'll be up-to-date with both.
Take care,
Mont
Of all the places in the world that I thought I could run into you, cyberspace rated about last!
From your bio - "...and arrived at the conclusion that work is over-rated..." - how the heck is that going? You get to drive around Australia and get paid for it? For drinking in pubs and re-telling stories with varying amounts of facts in them? Half yer bleedin' luck!
If your go through Esperance while you're over there ask if anyone has bits of Skylab - remember it fell out of the sky near there in 1979 - about two weeks after my ship was there in fact. Only reason I remember...
I think I'll start reading your blog more often...and for a small fee I WON'T tell people some of the stories about you...
Whenever your back in Sydney...
Colin Robo