Weekly Photo Challenge: Waiting
At Nundroo Roadhouse, waiting was a time of day. Every time of day, it often seemed. Those three months weren’t just a rare employment opportunity – they were a lesson in patience…
Category Archives: South Australia
An Absence of Internet, and the Benefits of Isolation
“Well I’m changing all my strings, I’m gonna write another travelin’ song. About all the billion highways and the cities at the break of dawn. I guess the best that […]
How to Love a Town You Don’t, Steps 5-8
Two years ago, daily lamentations filled up the journal I had carried to an isolated mining town in Western Australia. Against all good advice to “make the most of it,” I hated Newman. The bugs, […]
Escape From Nundroo, #1: Fowlers Bay
Salt, decomposing meat and uprooted seaweed – that distinctive odor of the ocean – floods my nostrils as I climb out of the truck. The others don’t find it appealing. “It smells like […]
Postage Stamp: Nundroo, South Australia
From our room, the passing road trains sound like swooping aircraft, not the earth-bound rush of mighty 18-wheelers bearing their goods eastward. The highway sustains life out here. It is […]
