Tumbling

I've been to Queensland twice.

I live in Victoria, the sedimentary state. When I say sedimentary, I mean it is at the bottom of Australia - the safe centre of gravity of an incomprehensibly huge land. Victoria is small but sturdy.

Both times that I've journeyed to Queensland I've travelled via bus and car respectively.

And both times I've had this overwhelming sense of vertigo, that the vehicle I'm in will conk out and roll back down to Victoria, or that when I step out I will fall, tumbling down, down, down til I arrive dazed and damaged back in the bottom of Australia.