One of the things that I really like about living in Alice is how close everything is. My commute to work is 15 mins. Now most Territorians actually think that is actually a long way but for someone who commuted almost an hour for a few years 15 mins is amazing. And it is a beautiful commute along the West Macs I must say. Also, 15 mins or less if we want to visit any friends, do some shopping, go to the doctors, go for a walk in the bush, have a swim everything can be done in 15 mins. And if you want to do anything else you probably have to fly there because if you drive more than 15 minutes in any direction you’ll be heading into the middle of the desert and that goes on for a long, long way.

So today as we often do here I was able to meet Martin for lunch. I can just ring him and say “do you want to have lunch” and he says “yes” and we can because it only takes 5 minutes to get there. It makes me very happy.