The sunburnt country

I spent almost two years in Australia, arriving in November of 2017 and departing in September of 2019. A third of that time, seven months of it, was devoted to cycling the circumference of that sunburnt country, that wide brown land.

Though I knew Australia was not a country I would wish to call home, I did fall deeply in love with its landscapes and for that it will be forever lodged in my heart.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror —
The wide brown land for me!

From My Country by Dorothea Mackellar

You can read a bit more about my journey here..