Life
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Wait. Where did the path go?
“Oh my god, what if we never get out of here and they never find us!” Kim pulled another spiky vine from her hair and swore in frustration. Surrounded by jungle greenery, our girl’s weekend to the oldest rainforest in the world didn’t seem so wonderful now. I slipped and fell a short distance down an embankment onto a fallen log, or thick branch,… who knows? “It’ll be fine,” I said. “We’ve just gotta be patient.” Our weekend in the Daintree was almost over. We’d snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef, cruised the estuaries and learned about crocodiles, dined at some great restaurants, and this track was the last on our…
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Facing Joy
There’s nothing like the open space of an Australian country highway. Hundreds of kilometers of bitumen that link one town to the next. This particular section was straight and flat and surrounded by dry fields, yet little splashes of color caught my eye as our car hurtled past them. More came towards us…. and then disappeared again as we sailed past. The heads of the little yellow flowers bobbed in the wind, and something about them attracted my attention. “I’d love a photo of those little flowers.” I said to Stew. “Just tell me where to stop.” “I don’t think we can.” This stretch of highway had a tiny gravel…