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Monthly Archives: April 2025
the sun touched the tops of the still trees
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If you have your own car and want to drive from Alice Springs to Uluru you should be able to complete it in about four and a half hours. Our RS itinerary had our coach departing the hotel at 07:00 …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
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and a desert all around
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Periodically through this journal I’ve voiced a complaint that many of our RS days were overfilled (or at least I’ve complained in my mind) and, although our day in Alice Springs (Mparntwe in the local Arrernte Language {pronounced M’bun-twa and …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
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Your suspense is nearly ended
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I ended the previous post leaving you, the reader, waiting for something astonishing. It was this: Shortly after supper but before the train had chugged its way back to Darwin (Yes, I know, trains don’t actually chug anymore but chugging …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
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and they were prophetic
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We were up and at ’em Wednesday morning – in the lobby by 07:00, on the bus at 07:10, and at the Darwin Convention Centre for check-in and a light breakfast prior to boarding The Ghan for our scheduled trip …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
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yet not a footstep was there
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There’s always a moment whenever I go to any museum that I reach a saturation point. This is the time when I’m simply looking at whatever is displayed but not thinking about it. Some have a longer intake allowance than …
Posted in Australia - Fall 2024
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