Burning canefields, empty highways and north Queensland feet – is that life?| Brigid Delaney

Travelling 3,000km to the top of Australia by bus, then going to the airport and flying back. It was a metaphor for existence

Day 10 of my 3,000km bus journey up the east coast of Australia, and I’m dropped off on the side of the road in central Queensland at 1:10am, about 30km from my destination.

It is cold. It is desolate. We are in what appears to be a bay where truckers sleep in their cabs. It’s disorienting but I calm myself with thoughts of pizza.

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