Australian Country

a fork in the road

t was literally a signpost moment. With a significant decade to celebrate, and COVID putting the kibosh on any hope of overseas travel, Sydney endocrinologist Dr Kate Benson took herself and her law student daughter, Annie, on a road trip. “We were headed for Mudgee, but somewhere over the Blue Mountains, I spotted a sign for Orange,” Kate recalls. “That triggered a memory that I'd had a colleague move to Orange. I wondered if she was still there and how she was getting on so when I got home, I made contact with her.”

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