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Date: October 21, 2003
Location: Coober Pedy, South Australia
I'm still alive! I've had a few adventures that I'd like to write about but
can't because the internet costs a lot here. I will write more when the cost is
reasonable.
I have visited Ayer's Rock, now known as Uluru. It was beautiful. The red center
of Australia from Alice Springs to Uluru is great. There are many places to hike
and bike.
Currently, I am in the a city that is built upon the world's largest opal deposits.
The temperature can exceed 50 degrees centigrade. Many buildings are built underground
with a constant temperature of 25 degrees. I'm in an underground internet cafe.
Above ground it looks like nothing but dust and vents and mullock from the mines
and a lot of sheet metal buildings. A whirly just blew past on my way sucking
the dust off the ground with a noise like a vacuum cleaner.
I'm off to Adelaide. I will have a 250 kilometer stretch with no
cities or roadhouses, nothing but a barren desert, the same one
in the Mad Max movies.
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