"A retired psychiatric nurse, grandfather of three, a bushwalker 65 years young, out to fulfil a lifelong ambition to cycle around Australia..."

Archive for July, 2009

C’est la vie!

Evening of June 18: my mobile phone has had no reception since leaving West from Charters Towers – no contact with home for two days.
Bushcamping West of the Campaspe River between the road and the railway line. A rough, restless night. Three goods trains thundered past the campsite, and a dozen or more road-trains shook [...]