Searching for Larrikins - the Courthouse Hotel at Jamieson, Victoria
Searching for Larrikins The Courthouse Hotel at Jamieson on the Upper Goulburn River, Vic. “I shambled after (them) …. because the only people who interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn …..' Three months after I first read and was inspired by this quote, and the rest of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”, I hitchhiked from Sydney to Perth and back in 11 days for a bet. I made it with a bit under 6 hours to spare. It was 1964, vast stretches including all the Nullabor were unsealed. And I was 13 years old. In the almost exactly 47 years since (the trip was 11 days because that’s how long the June school ho...