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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Doweymex on October 02, 2014, 01:41:43 PM
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Just started reading a book titled "The World's Longest Taxi Fare". It's about a local Geelong taxi driver who in 1930 was asked by a 66yr old woman to take her and two friends of similar age to Darwin and return in his Hudson.
Blurb reads "Motor Service Provider, Charlie Heard was engaged to carry three ladies on a daring outback adventure in 1930. he drove them in his Hudson taxi from Lorne in Victoria, up through the red centre to Darwin, and back down to Victoria via Brisbane and Sydney. A real outback adventure before made roads existed outside the main cities. Charlie's grandchildren re-created the trip 78 years later in a 1928 Essex"
Book is divided in two parts; Charlie's expedition then that of his grandchildren.
Very entertaining so far.
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And I thought my rosebud trips in a cab were long.