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...Bramble fetches Mark Williams, at 45 the group's young 'un. A while ago, Williams' employer let him go with a good payout, and he decided to live modestly and not work again. Separated from his wife and children, he lives alone in Cundle Flat-an hour's ride west of Taree. For Williams, the rides with Bramble's group these past two years have been a weekly highlight. It's the camaraderie, he says, and the joy of riding, in his case atop a BMW 1200 GS. Williams has loaded a digital music player with the bands he loved...
...Eighty Mile Beach before, and are hoping to fill their portable freezer with goodies such as the delicious but hard-to-catch threadfin salmon. Glen, a tanned and trim 62-year-old who still works as a carpenter, keeps an eye on the charts, goes to fish two hours before full tide, and stays for an hour after its peak. When the tide is out on this shallow coast, he'll walk 3 km over the wet sand to cast his line...
...horizon to the south like an outback Venice, while to the north, the Flinders Ranges begin their majestic roll. They were partly what brought Sydney-born Myers, 64, to the area on holiday in 1966, and his love affair with the landscape has continued ever since. "Change color every hour," he says...
...well. And they just keep on coming and they don't thin out." But a roo isn't to blame this morning, nor is low oil or water. Written across the Kenworth's chassis is the motto without trucking australia stops, but into the last quarter of their 40-hour trip, Schneider and Bryson must simply sit on the roadside and check and recheck the truck manual...
...Schneider, 43, knows the area more intimately, having roamed it for 20 years as a mines driller. Even today, he's not regretting his decision, three months ago, to take up trucking: "The money's not as good, but it's easier." In five-hour stints, he'll take the wheel while his companion beds down in the padded cabin bunk. Each knows the other's boundaries. "If someone doesn't want to talk," says Schneider, "you leave him alone and he leaves you alone...