To say "I was here"
Miles and miles from anywhere (Kalgoorlie's the nearest town - and that's nearly 100 kilometres behind you), where once there was a town that boasted its own hospital, a hotel, stores, streets and houses, a roadside sign tells those who pass by that here there was a town called Siberia. This is one of the region's many ghost towns, born of men's search for gold, to die and disappear when the gold ran out. Some distance from the sign, in what was once the cemetery, presumably on the outskirts of the town, there are thirteen anonymous graves , twelve full-sized and one tiny, and a sign on a post telling the names of those buried there but not which grave is which. Of the town's buildings, nothing remains but almost everyone who comes along this road stops here, taking a moment out of their day to make a small gesture in this empty place to say "I was here and I will remember."They stop by...
