A quickie

I'm knackered. I started a contract job today and although I am extremely grateful for the work (and the pay) it's hard work working!!

I live in the Inner West, about 5 km from the centre of Sydney, and where I'm working now is about 50 km west. It's not a difficult drive as it is against the peak hour traffic, but it is in an area I have never ever been in before. There are steel mills and timber mills and lots of very large trucks. As far away from 'corporate' work as you could imagine, which is fantastic!!

I was very careful on the way there this morning, with my map and all, but tonight I was tired and it was dark and I just hopped in my car and started driving, without thinking about where I was actually going. It only took one wrong turn to get me completely lost. Around where I live, you cannot really drive too far before you come across a major road that is familiar. Out there, the more I drove, the more rural it got. Once I started seeing paddocks of horses, I figured it was time to pull over and figure out where the hell I was!!

So there I was, still in the city in which I was born and bred, but I suddenly felt very alone and quite vulnerable. Which is ridiculous of course. It took no time at all for me to backtrack onto a road that got me to the freeway. But it got me wondering, just how far do we need to step away from our own front doors before we are no longer at home?