goodbyes | CHARLIE WATTS

I only had the morning left in Alice to do some last minute sightseeing and then head off to Auckland.

Ed and I headed to the telegraph station to check out the first settlements of Alice Springs. Alice was originally set up as a telegraph station to pas messages through from Darwin to Adelaide. It was pretty cool so see what it may have been like in the late 19th century and how much life has changed in the past 100 years through the invention of cars, Internet and most importantly, air conditioning.

We then quickly drove to the Tropic of Capricorn to get a cheeky photo before rushing home, cramming everything into my bag and heading out to the airport. I said my goodbyes and fly off to Adelaide.

Flying into Adelaide I saw the forest fire which burnt down hundreds of homes. Although disastrous it was an awesome sight. After arriving in Adelaide I ran to my next flight, boarded and waited. About an hour after we were meant to depart we were all made to disembark due to a fuel leak on the plane. So I waited for 5 hours until my next flight to Melbourne.

Arriving in Melbourne later gave me an hour and a half to collect my bag and re check. Only my bag didn’t come and I spent the next 45 minutes organising for it to be sent to Auckland. They handed me a washbag and sent me on my way giving me 45 minutes to check in and get I my flight but I managed it and I was on my way to Auckland.

After the major sunburning of 2014 yesterday, most of the day was spent inside trying not to make the burns worse. We had to leave the house the next day so we started packing up and eating up all the left over food. It started getting quite sad cause this would the last time I would see any of my family for a long time. Matthew and Emily would be heading back to Townsville, my Mum and Dad would be doing their tour of Australia before heading back to TCI and Ed and Angie would be driving back to Alice Springs while I would spend New Year’s Eve alone in Melbourne at a hostel.

I made a comment that if i knew Ed and Angie were driving back I would have gone with them and it made me think, “why don’t I?’. So I looked up the cost of changing my flights and buying one from Alice Springs down to Melbourne and though a little pricey I kind of thought, why not? Why should we save our money in the bank and if you work hard for it then you should spend it on something you want to do. So around 11pm I packed my stuff into their car, said goodbye to my parents and Matthew and Emily and we set off on the 22 hour drive from Melbourne to Alice Springs.

CHARLIE WATTS

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