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And thank you for the reminiscing, too, @HenryX. I grew up in Cannon Hill which, at your young age, wouldn't have been known to you. But it is just a short drive away. Are you referring to Bulimba Primary School – the big brick building with large ionic-styled pillars out front, as I recall. My mother's relative lived just a stone's throw away - in Wentworth Parade also. If you had stayed until your secondary school, we may have attended the same secondary school. I know the river and the ferry. I can't say I remember the military barracks, though. They must have been wonderful years for you growing up amongst so much activity. So exciting for a youngster.

It's amazing – the events which stay in our memory – as if they happened just yesterday. I think it is the excitement, and the emotion generally, which allows them to remain so fresh and able to be so vividly relived.

Yes, people did generally travel by alternative means in times past. Even quite 'recently', in fact. My family always drove between states for the most part – only flying when we became more 'affluent'. 

I sat through a great deal of that SBS program which took a journey on the Ghan – Adelaide to Darwin. It was long, and to be honest, I was glad I could turn it off and do other things sometimes. But I was amazed at the flatness of Australia. And its vastness.  Interesting, though, to say the least. I sat in on a couple of those SBS 'slow trips'. Very relaxing – so needed in our lives sometimes.

You sound to have been a very impressionable youngster. Times have changed so rapidly in recent decades. It must be the computer-effect!

I get the feeling you would have loved your school years, @HenryX.

Cheers!