I hitchhiked round Australia, and have MS now. I am so glad that I did not have it before I started as I was able to travel in so many places that I wouldn’t been able to get to now, but could do then!
Travelling round Australia, I suppose we had the chance go to the South Pole. But we didn’t.
Sadly I was supposed to travel with a friend, and she was meant to go with me, but did not turn up; but I met Irene in the airport and she became a great friend. We both worked at adjoining cattle stations in The Kimberlies in The Northern Territories. I got around by hitching lifts with the Flying Doctors. Later we lost touch but I saw her again by chance at a bus station and we finished the rest of the trip together.
At one point I was hitching in Western Australia and the car I was in had an accident and I was thrown out and landed on my head. They took me to hospital. Later we went to a pub and they were all talking about the girl who was thrown out of the car and that was me. Anyway I lived to tell the tale.
But then my father was not that well, so we thought we should go home
Veronica
