Adelaide to Alice Springs
Oppressed by the need to catch up, I offer the following sloppy partial summary of Adelaide to Alice Springs. Prospective complainers are reminded of the cost to them of reading – the value of their time not considered.
Our group is eight:
* Achim from Germany
* Connie and Ben from Melbourne
* Kevin and Jen from New York
* Sarah from Ottawa
* Tanja from Switzerland
Our guide is Derek.
Our first day is a lot of driving. We leave Adelaide and eventually paved roads as we reach the Flinders Ranges.
Kanyaka Settlement outlasted the under-prepared settlers who were offered free land here.
That night, we stay at a bunkhouse converted from an old tuberculosis recovery hospital. Derek breaks out the cricket gear. In cricket, it seems that hitting a ground ball to shortstop is worth four runs. I become disappointed with the sporting choices that I have made in my life.
The next day, we drop in on Talc Alf. If you do not have a web site dedicated to you, this may prove that you are now the only one.
When not carving some pretty impressive art from talc, Alf is pondering the origin of words. He described the origin of Australia, Canada, America, Germany, and Switzerland. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch any of these explanations as I was pondering the origin of the sandwich at that time. This other site gives an example of some of his research, though. Ben asked him about Argentina. Alf admitted that didn’t get too many visitors from Argentina and therefore had not worked that one out yet.
Alf wears a shirt that sports his version of the Australian flag. Just in case….
Down the road, this attraction consists of some pretty bizarre industrial art. I wasn’t too attentive to the details here either though I believe the sequence to be:
* hippie road trip
* desert bong-up
* government grant request
* parliamentary bong-up
* funded project
William Creek is billed as the smallest town in South Australia. Derek puts the population at less than twenty. We sleep outside for the first time.
Our group is eight:
* Achim from Germany
* Connie and Ben from Melbourne
* Kevin and Jen from New York
* Sarah from Ottawa
* Tanja from Switzerland
Our guide is Derek.
Our first day is a lot of driving. We leave Adelaide and eventually paved roads as we reach the Flinders Ranges.
Kanyaka Settlement outlasted the under-prepared settlers who were offered free land here.
That night, we stay at a bunkhouse converted from an old tuberculosis recovery hospital. Derek breaks out the cricket gear. In cricket, it seems that hitting a ground ball to shortstop is worth four runs. I become disappointed with the sporting choices that I have made in my life.
The next day, we drop in on Talc Alf. If you do not have a web site dedicated to you, this may prove that you are now the only one.
When not carving some pretty impressive art from talc, Alf is pondering the origin of words. He described the origin of Australia, Canada, America, Germany, and Switzerland. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch any of these explanations as I was pondering the origin of the sandwich at that time. This other site gives an example of some of his research, though. Ben asked him about Argentina. Alf admitted that didn’t get too many visitors from Argentina and therefore had not worked that one out yet.
Alf wears a shirt that sports his version of the Australian flag. Just in case….
Down the road, this attraction consists of some pretty bizarre industrial art. I wasn’t too attentive to the details here either though I believe the sequence to be:
* hippie road trip
* desert bong-up
* government grant request
* parliamentary bong-up
* funded project
William Creek is billed as the smallest town in South Australia. Derek puts the population at less than twenty. We sleep outside for the first time.
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