Follow the footsteps from my growing up country Wiluna, WA to Sydney, NSW... At sixteen years of age life for me was looking good as it came towards the end of the Christmas Holidays. I believed I would not have to travel over 800 kilometres by slow train from Wiluna to Perth to attend school at Aquinas College, where I would again be a boarder, as I had been for several years. However I was given one hell of a shock when my father announced at dinner that I would be leaving for Perth the following Sunday to go to Perth University and study for several years to follow the family tradition to become a mining engineer. That night there was no time for sleeping - when all was quiet after midnight I packed a few clothes, rifle and ammunition, then quietly wheeled my bike out through the front gate and rode away...