Richard Feidler

I thought, oh, I'm going to spend the money I'd saved to travel around Australia.

So I went tobacco farming around Myrtleford near Bright and you stayed on the farm and they didn't pay you till you left the season, but they gave you a bit of pocket money to go and get some extra goodies for food delivery.

But I think when I look back now, I think one thing I've got is a really... I guess I'm a resilient person that I can pivot and deal with whatever's in front of me most of the time.

And so that was very isolating.

Didn't have any drugs, but we did drink a lot.

Yeah.

Well, I'd gone up to Cairns, which was like a tiny village then, and I'd met these blokes, and I was the only woman.

And I basically, oh, if you're doing that, I'll do that.

Like, I never really had a plan of my own.

So they said, oh, well, we're going to go to Bali, but we have to get over to Darwin.

So we spent like a week getting over there...

No, we were hitching.

Right.

And that was, I remember in Commonwealth, they were so drunk.

They were driving.

The boot came up.

They were drunk as skunks.

How we didn't crash that car, I don't know.

Slept on, got kicked off verandas for sleeping on.

Anyway, it was a bit of an adventure.