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...nasty hangover at 6 p.m. My brother and I have spent an hour and a half in the cold trying to wheedle our way on to one of the rare UC buses. I’m grumpy, miserable and freezing, but I have a secret weapon for the bus ride: the first Harry Potter book tucked safely under my arm. Though I’ve read it before, the movie is coming out soon and I want to refresh my Potter savvy before I see it on the big screen. I spend the next few hours...
...given our world the gift of another world, a completely fantastic place with enough parallels to our world that it makes us think. Many contemporary books are intensely personal, intensely subjective and intensely cynical—not the kind of books one can read on a smelly bus ride home from Yale. But Harry Potter hit the spot; it was absorbing, satisfying and wholly escapist. And the mobs outside stores that June night are proof that my experience with the book is a common...
...getting to my camel camp of choice run by Explore the Outback (www.austcamel.com.au/explore.htm) turned out to be a trek in itself. I hitched a ride on the twice-weekly mail truck from the South Australian opal-mining town of Coober Pedy to Warriner, a long-abandoned railway depot in the middle of nowhere. "You'll be all right with Phil," the cheerful driver assured me. "He's a bit of a bushie." It wasn't a reference to his foot-long beard. Wearing a check shirt and a tall, rabbit-felt hat, trek leader Phil Gee looked the part...
...this remote corner of the outback, hunting for traces of human passage. Each group of about 12 tourists accompanies him on a slightly different trek?ensuring that his clients get a unique trip, and he a chance to fill in the blank spaces on the map. Gee's guests ride through some of Australia's most austere terrain, participating in the full desert trek experience?much like the original European explorers...
...rail trip?most berths on this overnight run cost more than a business-class seat on Qantas. The cozy sleeping cabins are plainly but comfortably furnished and feature enough clever foldaway devices to keep you amused even if you don't spend most of the 20-hour ride in one of the three bars or the dining car. But dinner is the highlight of the trip. As you tuck into your fillet of kangaroo with native pepperleaf and plum sauce, a banquet of scenery is delivered to your window?vistas of sand and spinifex grass, with salt plains for seasoning...