27 January, 2011

All Aboard

So I finally left WA a couple of weeks ago. I took a train from Perth aaall the way over to Adelaide (2 nights later)(in an upright chair)(never felt so good to be horizontal again)(slept for like 12/13 hours), which was relatively gruesome, but was mostly awesome!! The Prairies ain't got nothin' on the Nullarbor!! The Prairies are flat, but things change up every day or so at least..!... Out here, you could see just flat out both sides of the train, and the same scenery all along more or less. It was shocking. But beautiful still! We caught the sunrises and sunsets still, which were really nice. Also, I partied in the party cabin with a handful of awesome people, most mentionable were Corrine and Lorraine. These were two recently widowed ladies of ... won't guess the age, but they were more frail than my 83 year old Grandma. We stopped one night in a town called Kalgoorlie, not far from Perth (9 hours or so)(!!), and we all decided to go for a drink. Another wonderful lady was this wild Australian-Russian who led us directly to the nearest nightclub. We all piled in and one nice man with us bought all of us ladies a sophisticated glass of white wine. The girl who served us had on a tiny piece of lingerie with both cheeks clearly out and ready for the night. Corrine hadn't noticed yet, so I was sure to point it out. She responded with wide open eyes and a hand across her mouth. We all moved through the young bustling Australian crowd to the upstairs where we rested on the silent balcony, overlooking the night. It was a hilarious night :) The women just loved it!!!! The next day, Corrine was saying, "it's taken me 70 plus years to have an experience like that!" They were so awesome and full of life, and it made me open to being 70 plus myself.

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