Comments by "Brad Griffin" (@BradGryphonn) on "DownieLive" channel.

  1. 14:15 Yes. Exactly. A train runs on a different path to road travel. The train and the scenery it passes is the adventure. It's not the destination. As a pseudo-hippy in the late 70s/early 80s, walking less-trodden paths was my thing. I wanted to see what couldn't be seen from the window of a car. Trains became a small but important part of that journeying, like sitting in a caboose at night, travelling from Cairns to Mareeba up the Kuranda range in Australia. The route is a major tourist attraction today but we saw little besides town lights far below on the coastal plains on our slow journey up the range. But it was a unique experience very few have had the pleasure of enjoying.
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  2. You probably won't see this comment, but... I'm in my late 50s, an Aussie, and I've always vowed never to travel OS until I've explored all of my country. However, I've always thought that if I was ever to travel/journey overseas, Canada would be the place. You see, I'm a tropical boy. Cold weather makes me very uncomfortable and I reckon the only way to get used to cold would be to put myself in a place where it is ALWAYS cold by my conditioning. At the place where I call home when it gets below 24C, we start lighting our fires and wearing jumpers. It would be quite the experience for me to live in a place for a while where the temperatures rarely reach that.
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