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...intrepid tourists, and, in recent years, its commercial traffic has been supplemented by the four-wheel-drives of "gray nomads." These older Australians, many of them retirees, are gaily squandering the children's inheritance to see the country, their caravans and motor homes tootling contentedly through the emptiness of desert and bush, turning off to see the sights, oblivious to the thunder of 53-m-long road trains...
...intrepid tourists, and, in recent years, its commercial traffic has been supplemented by the four-wheel-drives of "gray nomads." These older Australians, many of them retirees, are gaily squandering the children's inheritance to see the country, their caravans and motor homes tootling contentedly through the emptiness of desert and bush, turning off to see the sights, oblivious to the thunder of 53-m-long road trains. For this year's Australian Journeys special issue, we decided to tootle along the highway too. Last month, seven writer-photographer teams hit the open road-with open minds, shutters and notebooks...
...nothing like the tourist brochures out here on the wildflower trail. The promised expanses of everlasting daisies are a riot of brown, the crippling drought postponing, if not canceling, their show. Here and there a scarlet burst of desert pea catches the eye, and the soft orange of the acorn banksia glows above creamy white smokebush along the road, but this season's wildflower hunt demands a little more effort...
...knot begins to form in my stomach exactly at 8 a.m., when I step into the small Fokker F-28 jet that will take me and 50 other passengers from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad. I know what lies ahead: an hour's uneventful flying over unchanging desert, followed by the world's scariest landing--a steep, corkscrewing plunge into what used to be Saddam Hussein International Airport. Then an eight-mile drive into the city along what's known as the Highway of Death. I've made this trip more than 20 times since Royal Jordanian's civilian flights started...
...received the medal of honor in Israel for 20 years of volunteer service. I am now 45. For many years, I kept in touch with one of my two fellow captives. But had no contact with the other one. Two or three years ago, I visited him in the desert where he lives. He criticized me for speaking out about my experiences in Syria. My perspective is that people need the support. They know that there's more than misery. A capture doesn't mean the end of life...