Apr 22 2019
Apprehension describes my mood at the moment. I try not to write about my apprehensions because some people at home are already nervous enough as it is. But that is my current mood. Not that I’m worried I will perish. I’m worried that I’ll be lonely. I am currently spending a few days here in …
Apr 22 2019
About a hundred miles into my trip, I started to feel I was drowning in a kind of “gold fever” from the history of Europeans arriving over a century ago in a mad search for gold and how the whole area grew because of that drive. The development of Western Australia around Perth inwards is …
Apr 22 2019
Unexpectedly, the major cultural thrust I’ve gotten out of traveling Western Australia is “Gold.” It’s history is gold; the major reason of new immigrants early in its history is the search for gold. Towns were born, and many died as people came and went in search of gold. According to one person I spoke to, …
Apr 18 2019
I am trying my best to avoid overstating my disdain for the world’s taste for gold, a very artificial measure of value. Aesthetically pretty, yes; a measure of wealth, no. But riding through this area known as The Goldfields, one can’t but be overwhelmed (smothered?) by its atmosphere. Nowhere is it most glaring is its …
