Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
Hard to believe this shambles is going to be the new Waterview Interchange. It is at least entertaining with changes on a weekly basis – unless of course your daily commute goes this way and it's pretty bloody average I imagine. Once those enormous columns go in, truckloads of precast concrete i-beams are trucked in and suddenly you're driving under a new bridge.
The tunnel is almost half way - 'Alice' the tunnel borer that started 2.5 kilometers away in Mt Roskill will soon turn around and head back again - and create the northbound tunnel in the process.
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