READERS’ TRAVEL WHAT DID EMERSON SAY AGAIN?

MELBOURNE TO ADELAIDE THE BACK WAY

“TIME IS RELATIVE.” ALBERT EINSTEIN WORDS/PHOTOS MICHAEL WALLEY

I love touring in Victoria and I’ll tell you why. In my home state of South Australia, if you want to venture down a back road to take the more scenic route, or just for something different, chances are it will be a dirt road. A lot of times it will have those small stones that are more like marbles or have those nasty corrugations due to the dry weather and lack of infrastructure to keep on top of maintaining them. Now I’m not bagging South Australia as we don’t have the population to sustain the roads to Victoria’s standards, but I’m always amazed when I travel across the border to find tar roads in the middle of nowhere. (I really need to get a dual purpose bike.)