Huge, Unbelievable Journeys in an Extremely Huge Nation
The Australia Letter is a weekly publication from our Australia bureau. Signal as much as get it by electronic mail. This week’s challenge is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter in Melbourne.Earlier this 12 months, my colleague Hikari Hida and I reported on a tremendous, unbelievable journey underway on Australia’s east coast.Ryokei Mifune, a younger Japanese backpacker who goes by Uni, was making his manner from Melbourne to Cairns, by way of Sydney, on a flimsy nonmotorized youngster’s scooter, a journey of greater than 2,000 miles.He was, in each respect, underprepared — tenting in city parks, shedding toenails to the tarmac (he wore sandals all through) and speaking with strangers by way of Google Translate and the common language of grateful smiles and nods. His journey, which was so...