Hell of a day this has been, and I'm not just talking about your typical Outback dangers...
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Great Sandy Desert? More like Great Big Pain in My Arse, if I'd have named the bloody place. Sand in your shoes, mud in your face. Hot as Hell, and that's during the dry season. But it's not the dry season, is it? No, that'd be much too easy on us. It's the bloody wet season.
As if things couldn't get much worse. Lucas has kindly told me that the phrase "Buckley's Chance" is Aussie slang meaning, roughly, to have absolutely no chance at all. To be, as the Americans put it, "Up Shit Creek without a paddle". To be entirely luckless. I'm fairly sure none of that has anything to do with the ghosts of murder victims, but I guess there's a first time for everything.
From one tiny mining town to another... I'm beginning to sense a theme about the Land Down Under.
If there's one thing more primal than a fear of the dark or the unknown, it's a fear of fire. Merciless, pitiless, and all-consuming fire...
Then again, I'd argue our last night digging deeply into the injustice that occurred in Yirrimburra is probably a very close second, especially since none of us could control our own dreams... Yirrimburra really is not all that it seems, is it? And to think I once believed that this was a nice town!
First off, no, I don't bloody know what the hell happened to me over the past few days. Second of all, apparently trouble likes to follow this lot, because Lucas' uncle just kicked the bucket and none of us know what did it. Third, I'm making this whole thing quick, because my head is pounding like a 'roo jumped all over it and I just know there's something weird going on.
Darwin, Australia. Boy, am I ever glad to be somewhere that speaks my language for once, someplace I actually feel like I belong, someplace not as dreary and dirty as Shanghai's streets!
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