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Made a run for it.
Successfully escaped Jerrys Plains this morning. I knew the forecast was for 41 degrees today so got up at 3am, packed up and was on the highway by 4am enroute for Singleton where I will this afternoon catch a train to Newcastle. Back to Sydney, and then go and check the yacht. Could be time …
On Being a Samurai.
I laugh every time I see advertisements for Musashi health supplements on the back of our local buses. A computer-game warrior, all menace and muscle, selling fantasy. The threatening salami chopper, fearless because thoughtless, living “as though already dead.” Musashi would have laughed as well. The use of his name borders on an insult. Still, …
MSF banned and ride delayed for a few days.
Delayed again. This time it’s trackwork between Sydney and Newcastle, where I’ll start the next ride. So now, God willing and trains running on time, departure will be on Monday. Those who read Jeffery Robinson’s “Crimes against Humanity” might remember how he describes the Chilean secret police torturing children in front of their parents when …
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