ABSTRACT
One of the great fortunes of the author's life that stemmed from traveling and attending seminars throughout Australia was meeting Dr. Claire Smith, from Flinders University of Adelaide, South Australia, and now president of the World Archaeological Congress. The key to the international door that Claire Smith gave the author opened up the world to him, and it let him further the archaeological knowledge and education. As a result, the author learned how to live and work with non-Indigenous scholars and Indigenous peoples of many different countries and cultures and languages. Growing up in the Northwest, the author acquired a great skill as a bushman and got to know many of the traditional sites there. Later, on the way home to Mount Isa, Queensland, the author left Halls Creek of Western Australia and traveled 160 kilometers down the Tanami Desert track towards Alice Springs to look after a road house in the Wolf Creek Crater region.
