Launceston

I think I have a travel bug. It's called "wanderlust", which is defined as "a strong desire or impulse to travel and explore the world".  Well, I do love to travel, whether it’s by foot, bicycle, car or plane, to the next town or another country. And it's all about the journey, not the destination. Robert Louis Stevenson once said “I travel not to go anywhere, but just to go.” The trip we're about to embark on will take us north through Victoria, N.S.W. and Queensland, but will have no destination except to eventually return home. As these blog posts here describe, we've seen a little bit of the world, but we haven't actually seen all that much of Australia. So to remedy that, the plan has been to retire when the time was right, get ourselves a half-decent caravan, and explore this great land that's girt by sea. So far things have gone according to plan - time to see the plan through

We are now both retired, so the notion of "time" has taken on a whole new meaning. We can now take our time to explore this big wide land. Time is an ever-present constant in life, but the problem is there are only 24 hours in a day. I saw a shop sign the other day that said “Open 24 Hours”, but I thought to myself that I don’t have that much time. Albert Einstein (now there was a clever guy) once said “the only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once”. So, it's time to do some exploring ...