After four days on the Stewart Highway, a lonely, two-lane stretch of pavement from the south of Australia to the north, I was approaching the halfway point on my journey to the top of the country.

斯图尔特高速公路是一个偏僻的、双车道的公路，是澳大利亚南部通向北部的高速公路。在这条公路上行使了四天以后，我马上就要完成了在这个国家一半的旅程。