I'D WANTED to make this journey for over forty years. Now I’ve done it, along with friends Phil, Mike, Monica. We took less than three weeks and covered six thousand kilometers to drive one way. That’s a rate of 2000km per week. We crossed Australia from Darwin, NT, to the Central Coast, NSW. Along the way, I met a lot of stories. There was that of our own trip, and we learned about those of the geologists and biologists who studied the land, those of the Aboriginal people and the bushies who lived there. In all these stories the land plays a major role: not the land as setting, the land as protagonist. Wet or dry, vegetated or barren, red rock and red dust, it was with us all the way. After all, it was there
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