Word: ringwood
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...least two offers for a lift," says Matt Shaw, 32. "People are always stopping; I guess it breaks up the journey a bit for them." In the past 57 days, Shaw's journey has rarely stopped for long. On March 31, the registered nurse set out from his Ringwood home in suburban Melbourne with the aim of walking clockwise around Highway 1. "It's something I wanted to do before I got too much older and couldn't physically do it," he explains. "Friends thought I was insane, and family were a bit worried...
...traveling faster than the Gladesville postal worker Nobby Young, who at 44 km a day over 365 days, set a record pace for circumnavigating Australia in 1994. But the very Zen-like Shaw would seem to be in no real hurry to return to Ringwood. "Back on the Nullarbor," he says, of the limestone plateau he's just crossed, "you can hear the bark peeling off the trees. It's amazing-it's just that quiet. You become part of the land, I guess...
DIED. EDWARD CRAVEN WALKER, 82, unabashed nudist and inventor of the oozing 1960s groovy-soothing lava lamp; in Ringwood, England. After the lamp buyer at Harrod's found Walker's display of sculptural, sinuous paraffin-and-oil globs "disgusting," Walker took it elsewhere and hit big. "You can avoid going on drugs," he once said. "If you have a lava lamp, you won't need them...
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