Oh, it has been a lot of Chaos. If only my plans all worked out as I had imagined. Still, it has been exciting.
I have had trouble with phones and internet access. Optus and Telstra. Long conversations from the outback have been marginally fruitless, but I am coping.
A couple of weeks ago I was asked by SBS to participate in a program on Homeless Women, so had to re organise my life. I had to re organise my life and head off to Mt Isa earlier than originally planned. I would not be with the groups that I had planned to be with.
So I set off on Tuesday afternoon after a Society of Women Writers meeting, and full of fear, set off up the ranges through Toowoomba and had my first night at Dalby. I made it. Not used to driving the Coaster – big, manual. Eeek. But I did it.
To Sydney and SBS.
Fast forward (and I will detail my stops later) I made it to Mt Isa, in a Caravan Park. On the Tuesday, (August 15th) I was up early and on a plane to Sydney (via Brisbane), arriving around 4.15 pm with less than half an hour to get ready to go to the SBS Studio.
At the studio I had my makeup done and quickly into the studio to commence the Insight program. It was freaky. But I did it. I freaked too because they showed some filming of me and Murtle back in Brisbane. Filming done the day before I left Brisbane.
The program was filmed for around 3 hours, before we were taken to have a glass of wine and then taken back to the hotel. There were 5 of us at the hotel and we had breakfast together before departing. Another long day in planes from Sydney to Brisbane to Mt Isa. I was knackered.
I’m back on the road again. There’s a lot of “chatter” about the show – but I can’t find anything online.