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...action begins when the brawny Luke N. Forglory sets out in search of fame and gold in the old American frontier. Joined by his geeky Girl Scout sidekick, Wanda Buymycookies, Luke seeks the elusive Oregon Grail...
...springs, postcode 0852, consists of one establishment: the Wanda Inn roadhouse. But the petrol station?pub?motel, 300 km southwest of Katherine, has the feel of a small town. Within its tidy sprawl of accommodation blocks, trailers, caravans and tents - powered by a shed-sized generator and watered by an artesian well - manager Terry Jones and her seven staff (plus Spike the dog, Pickles the wallaroo and a resident python) host a shifting population of local cattlemen and Aborigines, road workers, tourists and truckers. Isolated the place may be, says Jones, a former hairdresser, but it's never lonely...
...Native Son Lee Peterson, 21, drives a gravel truck for a Katherine-based road maintenance crew. He knows the Wanda Inn well - his grandmother used to own the place, and as a child he spent school holidays here playing or working for pocket money. Currently resealing the road just north of "Toppy," Peterson and his crew - who include his sister and his father-in-law - doss down in a trailer-mounted bunkhouse in the roadhouse's forecourt. "We always stop for a few days if we come through here," he says. "It is like an oasis in the desert...
...life is not quite long enough to accomplish that, but a fact-finding trip with siblings is a big help. Those missing pieces in the puzzle that have been troubling you for years--Why did Dad carry a fire extinguisher when he went to the Boyds' to pick up Wanda for Sunday school? And your sister says, cool as can be, "Because Beryl Boyd was hopped up on vaporizers and liable to hallucinate and think that the house was burning down, and somehow a blast of liquid CO2 seemed to calm her down." And there you have it. A little...
...Wanda and Bill at least have found a productive outlet for their anxieties: they helped organize a church group that sends letters and care packages to soldiers in Iraq. "It's helped us direct our energies," Bill says. "We're doing something instead of just sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves." --By Paul Cuadros/Fayetteville and Maggie Sieger