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Dust & Joy

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April 7, 2018
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The map showed only one main road running East along the coast, and I'd just found it completely closed by road works. Not a good start...
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25 Mar
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Escape from Dili

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March 25, 2018
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I woke up hungry in Dili that morning and could feel my energy fading as I packed up my things. Beastie was still locked up in the ship...
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First night in Dili

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March 19, 2018
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That first night in Dili, I bought myself a beer and watched the light fade over the traffic along the Avenida de Portugal. On the othe...
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Landing in Dili

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March 16, 2018
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The day I flew to Dili I was almost sick with excitement. Only one day into my life as a grown up person of thirty, and here I was flyi...
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12 Feb
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Reality Check

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February 12, 2018
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I'd made it to Darwin; Asia was just beyond the horizon. I could practically smell it. Seeing it was more difficult. Five times a day I...
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Smoke gets in your eyes

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March 28, 2023
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I'd soaked in the hot springs and from there it was an easy run into Darwin - just four hundred kilometres up the highway. I wasn't in ...
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22 Jan
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Bitter Springs

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March 28, 2023
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I woke late in a lather of sweat and humidity. The sun was on my tent and it was steaming me slowly like a greenhouse tomato. I'd slep...
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21 Jan
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Last Road to the End of Australia

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March 28, 2023
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I emerged onto the great north-south sweep of the Stuart Highway at Daly Waters. It's a smooth strip of bitumen that neatly bisects Aus...
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19 Jan
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Heartbreak Hotel

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March 28, 2023
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I woke in the pink of dawn and packed up my roadside camp, eyes still blurred by sleep and grit. There was no shade and I was racing th...
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31 Dec
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Roadside Assist

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March 28, 2023
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I pulled out of Barkly Homestead and turned off the main highway. Instead of following the main road west until I hit the gigantic nort...
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28 Dec
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Into the Northern Territory

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March 28, 2023
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In Camooweal that morning, I treated myself to a milky coffee at the road house where I fueled up. It had been a nice camp spot down by...
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24 Dec
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A Fine Balance

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March 28, 2023
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I'd investigated different routes from Boulia to Mount Isa, and the minor road through Urandangi looked like it might be fun. Local enq...
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Vulnerable

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March 28, 2023
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I pulled off the road near a water tank, somewhere between Boulia and Mount Isa. The sun was dropping rapidly; time to find some firewo...
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15 Dec
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Beastie Disassembled

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March 28, 2023
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By the next day I knew I'd be waiting a little while for my new tyres to make the migration from east coast Australia to the outback, b...
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13 Dec
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Hot winds and a technological death

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March 28, 2023
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I was just leaving Birdsville when I noticed a new, rough note in the sound of Beastie's single-cylinder thump. It wasn't quite a rattl...
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