“Every picture tells a story don’t it” (Rod Stewart). The
picture below tells a couple stories. The yellow warning sign with a kangaroo tells
you that we’re in Australia (and that kangaroos are on the roads, especially at
night). The truck in the picture is on the left side of the road and the story
it tells is more complex, but I’ll get to that in a minute.
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| Rural road in Queensland |
Twenty-four hours after we left northern Colorado, we walked
out of the international terminal in Brisbane’s airport in the state of
Queensland. We dragged our bags to the taxi stand and a driver greeted us with
“How we goin’ mate?” To which I could have replied “All good,” except that I
said we’re going to Taigum. My first lesson in Australian. He wanted to know
how we were doing, not where we were going. He had a mini-van and I rode in the front; I needed to get a feel for driving on the other side of the
road.
