Josef Strummer did it ...
Henry Schuurman did it ...
If another German, an Austrian, and a Dutchman can do it, why haven't I yet visited the old Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre near Albury to point at my own plaque on the memorial wall?
Muslims have their Mecca and Jews have their Wailing Wall; migrants have their memorial wall at the old Bonegilla Migrant Centre where they began their new lives in their new homeland, full of hopes and dreams.
I spent my first two nights on Australian soil at the Bonegilla Migrant Centre, after which I checked myself out to begin the adventure of a lifetime - click here. That was me then when I was still smiling ...
... which I've stopped since, but only because I've lost too many teeth.
Inside, I'm still smiling - in fact, I'm grinning from ear to ear - because my decision to come to Australia in 1965 has been the best decision in my life - and I hope one day I can still make my pilgrimage to Bonegilla!
