[ 25 years ]

I spent the weekend in a reverie of memories.  It was on October 1st, twenty-five years ago that I arrived in Brisbane, to be a pipeline engineer on the PNG-to-QLD pipeline.  Remember that failed project, anyone? 

Memories:  Jimmy’s on the Mall, Story Bridge Hotel, my apartment block on Thorn Street. 

Whenever I look back into the past, I also force myself to look ahead the same timescale.  Interestingly, these places aren’t that different 25 years later.  It’s possible the locals we go to today will be mostly similar in 2047.  

Maybe places don’t change that much, but people really do.