The Joy is in the Journey

Theme of the Local Hero,   Mark Knopfler's  Going Home If you have a google account you should be able to click that song title and click to listen to the song, an instrumental, as you read the final leg of this journey. So many songs about going home, Leonard Cohen, Tinpan Orange, Carol King, to name a few. But the lyrics are all wrong.  Our journey is coming to an end. We have this last day in Katherine and then we head up the very familiar stretch between here and Darwin.  This morning we took the bikes out for a spin. When we lived here we often went riding and have fond memories of riding with a bunch of friends around the Zimin Dve Circuit, or to the Cumbidgee Lodge or Springvale for breakfast on the weekend. Today we planned to do the Low Level to High Level circuit. Our park is situated right on the trail. Getting to the Low Level took no time, all down hill. While we stood watching the river flow beneath us Eric recalled a great story. We were both ...

John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival wrote: Move, Down the road I go. Move, Down the road I go......... A great lyric for this sort of journey where you hit a straight stretch and it extends the length of your vision to the horizon. Mind you, the rest of the song is about escaping his current lousy situation, getting out of town, which is not quite the case for us. We feel we are on the homeward leg now, though it is a long one, and we are heading back to town. Gosh Eric has a great music collection. The only blog-related song title I have had to search on Google for was James Blundell. But we do have a dear friend, and if she had been travelling with us, I am sure I would have been listening to James too.  This morning we had considered driving to Parry Lagoons Nature Reserve. Over 160 species of birds have been recorded at Marlgu Billabong, including migratory birds from the northern hemisphere and its listed as a wetland of international importan...