Friday, May 23, 2014

I disappeared but I've never felt so alive

No text message, no tweet, no facebook post...indeed no instant communication...

A lone blonde woman, 26-years old, wrapped in a sarong, leads four camels and a little dog across one of the most uninhabitable environments on Earth - a nine-month expedition across the Australian outback.

In 1977, Robyn Davidson trekked 2,700 kilometers from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean, armed with little more than a map and a rifle, in a landscape which had destroyed many a hardened explorer before her.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/22/showbiz/the-desert-woman/index.html?hpt=hp_c5