Crossing the Land of No Trees

I'm setting off on an adventure tomorrow morning with a couple of friends I met in Fiji. You may remember Michael the German and his French girlfriend Latitia. Well, they've bought a used van and they've invited me to go along with them to Perth.

For those of you who are geographically disinclined, Perth is on the opposite side of Australia from Melbourne. The drive is across the bottom of the country, through a long hot desert called the Nullarbor. The drive is about 500 miles longer than the distance from London to Moscow, if that gives you any kind of scale.

Fiona, meanwhile, will be staying in Geelong and going to her new job. She is a good wife who knows how to support her husband, and I intend to take advantage of it while I can.

I'll do my best to post along the way, but after Adelaide there seems to be nothing but tiny 800 person towns for about 1500 miles. But you never know - Kangergoolie might be a bustling technology oasis in a land known only for the longest stretch of uncurved railroad track in the world.

Posted by flow Frazao on January 19, 2005 at 10:26 PM in Australia | Permalink