Oo Roo, Uluru: a Trek In the Australian Outback

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OO ROO, ULURU
The Australian saying "see ya later" is often "Oo Roo."

I left in -2°Canberra in darkness, for the 6:10 AM flight to Alice Springs, via Melbourne. Packed planes for both legs (literally and figuratively) in a Boeing 737. From my centre seat, saw little of the countryside, other than the brown land, the mouldy, straw-yellow sparse ground-covering, on approaching Alice Springs. Clear azure skies. Stairs wheeled to both ends of the aircraft,...