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"In 2015, a headline in Conde Nast, perhaps the trendiest of travel magazines,
said ‘Electric Car Road Trips are the next big thing’. Ten years later, here in
outback Western Australia, my fellow grey nomads still look quizzical or
dismissive, at best curious, when you join a conversation about cars, costs and
distances – what else would you talk about on these open roads?
Watching your first sunset with a bunch of other tourists at Joffre Gorge, just
5 minutes walk from your glamping tent, you are just grateful to have this
view.
All the way from Cheela Plains I have had a Bangla folk song buzzing in my
head:
গ্রামছাড়া ওই রাঙা মাটির পথ আমার মন ভুলায় রে।
That red earth path out of the
village is making me forget myself, says the refrain.
If you are driving an EV, you are most likely to enter Karijini from the
western side, having fully charged up at Tom Price. Your first lookout, Mount
Sheila (pictured above), its table-flat top surrounded by memorial stones,
invites a contemplative silence. Makes you appreciate the silence of your car,
without an engine that roars or heats up!"
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
