It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.

Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.

...history is filled with fictional people. We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary - made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it's whether or not you want to.

Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it.

We want to see [these dogs] caught before they do any more damage. I don't know how dangerous these dogs are. Thankfully, we've not had any confrontations involving people yet.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.