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27th<\/sup> July Tues.<\/p>\n

20 miles north of Kempsey<\/p>\n

Touring a much over boomed pastime \u2013 i.e. as seen and enjoyed(?) by travelling all day in car. Fed up completely. So much so, as can only manage about 17 miles a day at the most. Get very tired after 60 miles. God knows how I did that 270 from Cooma on that \u2018day-after\u2019!<\/p>\n

Skyring Creek already buried in past ages and distance. Towns float kaleidoscopicly (some spelling!) past inner vision, all of a pattern, & strange sameness, differentiated by occasional purchases of fish & chips, lemonade, meat, etc. A vast long ribbon of varying texture, mostly poor embroidered indifferently & occasionally with clumped cottages. How dreary to my tired eyes. And yet each spot of it full of intimate enchantment which escapes the swift superficial glance, parsimoniously granted from the exacting road.<\/p>\n

The myriad lovely trees of Queensland, the blarsted toll bridges, our lack of money, the sole Good Rescona town, Beerburrum, the fence down the middle of the road dividing the 8 o\u2019clock Queensland pub from the 6 o\u2019clock NSW pubs at Coolangatta, Tweed Heads, the incomparingly better looking NSW girls, the noisy louts down south, the ever present sugar cane, god-damn sleepy Grafton, the interminable scrub forest, the tick gate border & thousand other impressions.<\/p>\n

Found two broken wires in the radio tonight. Fixed same and was rewarded.<\/p>\n

Feeling low today, wished I was home. Tired, worn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

27th July Tues. 20 miles north of Kempsey Touring a much over boomed pastime \u2013 i.e. as seen and enjoyed(?) by travelling all day in car. Fed up completely. So much so, as can only manage about 17 miles a day at the most. Get very tired after 60 miles. God knows how I did … <\/p>\n

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