I can’t believe I’ve been home for four months now.

Actually, I kinda can, because I’ve changed so much over that time. I’ve gotten stuck in this relentless cycle of fatigue (long covid) that I’ve really struggled to break out from. But I’m getting better.

It’s amazing to me that I’m only up to Day 33 of the Journal, it feels like I work on it all the time.

But it is lovely, getting to re-experience things.

When I was walking, each day I was deep in it, moving forward, trying to get to the next place, keep my momentum. I never really got to look back or reflect, and I certainly didn’t get time to re-watch the live streams.

As I go back now, it’s nice, it’s like getting to do that first-time meeting of friends, all over again 🙂

Today it’s Newcastle, and Andrew, Gayle, Grant & Maree. They walked the Fernleigh Trail with me, and were just plain lovely.

Here’s some photos, and since people hassle me to make it ‘more interesting’ and add music, I threw down a bit of background music. Couldn’t afford to pay for it though, so .. homebrand 😉

Just wanted to share this .. well .. because (sorry for swearing) I just fucking love it. Love it.

I hope you do too.

For a couple of months now, I’ve been feeling listless and fatigued, mentally vague and foggy. It feels a lot like the kind of fatigue and brain-fog I had when going through chemoradiation. I thought it was just a crash, a kind of physical collapse after completing THE BIG WALK, but I realise I got COVID in those early weeks, and have been reading about “long covid”.

Haha, not wanting to be a hypochondriac, but I’m starting to wonder.

Anyway, neither here nor there – in light or shadow, health or sickness – the best thing to do, the ONLY thing to do, is to try your best to keep your hope and optimism, to press forward.

So just working on recompiling all the streams and photos for my online journal (www.captainaustralia.online/journal) and I came across a video where I do an unplanned, completely improvised battle rap for a family affected by paediatric cancer – who wanted me to do a shout-out.

Video below – it turned into a kind of tribute to survivors, I hope you like it: