‘New world order? Mine is for children to leave home at nineteen,’ David looks in the rear vision mirror at his two daughters, hoping for a reaction. They aren’t listening, hooked into their devices. The car purrs along; the grey Trans-Am. It had seemed like an extravagance, but Luce had dared him. ‘It’s always been on the Bucket List to drive a Trans-Am on Route 66.’
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Wimmera Road Trip
Tarmac stretches ahead. The joy of the open road – not a cliche.
Summer of ‘79
Summer holidays means putting on the Golden Breed T-shirt and the wrap around batik skirt. Summer means cuddling up to a blonde bloke with scraggy hair who smells of surf and weed and sex. We sit around a campfire on the back beach. Someone burps in the dark.