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28/04/2012 by Julie Mundy

50. Australia

There is an ease about being in Australia:

It is Country knowing I belong regardless of my skin.
And the inexplicable sense of rightness I have
when I step off that plane from journeys far
and smell the air that is Australia,
and walk the very earth that is me.

jpm

Thank you to all of you who have followed me on my 50 words travels over the last year, for your encouragement and enthusiasm. I hope you have had some laughs, wondered a little, and maybe had some tears as well, remembering your own journeys through the lens of my words. I feel that by recording this little autobiography, I am all ready for Chapter 2. How exciting to look forward to adventures new and places unknown. I can’t wait.

Travel well,
Julie

Posted in Poetry, Travel, Travel Writing | Tagged Australia, home, home country, journeys, poem, Poetry, Travel, words, writing | 13 Comments

13 Responses

on 28/04/2012 at 11:12 PM | Reply deelaytful

Wow, this a very interesting project, a combination of a travelogue and poetry, Sadly, I got to discover it on the day you ended the project. lol. got to back track and read your previous works!
- on 28/04/2012 at 11:27 PM | Reply Julie Mundy
  
  Thanks Riley – so glad you found me, even if it is so late! Hope you enjoy some of the posts retrospectively – I can’t decide if it’s a travelogue, poetry, a travel anthology, an autobiography or just my words and memories! Good luck with your thesis and other projects! J
on 29/04/2012 at 12:41 AM | Reply janine

Ahh that is kind of sad, Now what do we have to transport us away when we can’t trave!?
- on 29/04/2012 at 9:52 PM | Reply Julie Mundy
  
  Well, Janine – I guess I will have to try and inspire you with the photos which go along with the 50 words – hopefully all pulled together in a book. But then again, I am sure you have your own 50 words inside you for all the wonderful places you have been and lived in, too! Jx
on 29/04/2012 at 4:44 PM | Reply Mircea Ostoia

Keep blogging because I love it 😀 http://postcard-travel-guide.blogspot.com/
- on 29/04/2012 at 9:53 PM | Reply Julie Mundy
  
  Thankyou Mircea! I wish I still had a postcard from each of the countries to send to you for your project, as I must have sent hundreds of them over the years – my mum kept all of the ones I sent to her, and they read like a travel diary in themselves! J
on 30/04/2012 at 4:25 PM | Reply Melinda Michalski

I really like this one Julie, pity it will be the last 😦
on 30/04/2012 at 4:35 PM | Reply Michelle Fuller

A beautiful #50- the collection would be lovely in a book! Excited for chapter 2!
- on 30/04/2012 at 4:50 PM | Reply Julie Mundy
  
  Thanks so much Michelle – and for the vote of support about a book – let’s hope I can get some publishers to agree with you!
on 21/05/2012 at 8:56 PM | Reply Lydia

A finale worthy of goosebumps. Your words have described a feeling I struggled to define. Thank you, thank you.
- on 21/05/2012 at 11:24 PM | Reply Julie Mundy
  
  Welcome home, Lydia. Jx
on 14/06/2012 at 8:11 PM | Reply Michelle Fuller

I still think people can continue reading this so I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award! Congrats! 🙂 http://wp.me/p2cqTL-iC
- on 14/06/2012 at 11:14 PM | Reply Julie Mundy
  
  Wow! Thank you so much Michelle – that means a lot. Time for me to pay it forward too. Travel well. J