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'The door of the dust-crusted semi-trailer swings open and Kym Mozol emerges,
grinning and weary.
The truckie clambers down, gratefully accepts a mug of instant coffee and pulls
up a plastic chair to enjoy a rare moment of peace in the soft dawn light of
Australia's largest desert.
For the past 14 hours he has been knocked, bumped, bounced and shaken, steering
the vehicle through the night along the "rough as guts" track from Ceduna, on
South Australia's Eyre Peninsula, to Tjuntjuntjara, 650 kilometres east of
Kalgoorlie on the West Australian side of the Great Victoria Desert.
It is a mammoth journey for the solo driver dodging "dopey camels", often
changing multiple tyres and avoiding the thick, sticky mud where he was once
bogged for eight long weeks.
Yet without Mr Mozol's efforts, life in Tjuntjuntjara may grind to a halt.
He brings the only delivery of groceries to the community's only shop,
returning every fortnight to refill the shelves.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
