Last week’s puzzle was to list all the countries that begin and end with “A”. It is surprisingly difficult. Austria, Australia…hmm. Ah yes, Albania. I gave you Antigua & Barbuda (in the Caribbean). A stage of the Tour de France finished in Andorra, in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, the day the puzzle appeared. The other 4 are Armenia, Algeria, Angola and surprisingly hard to think of given its size, Argentina.
Today’s puzzle sticks with one of these countries, Australia. Your plane has just crashed in the middle of the Nullarbor Plain in Australia, which is the location of the longest section of straight railroad in the world (299 miles). It is a moonless night and you can’t see anything around you, but you hear a train whistle and get a perfect bearing on which direction it came from. You know there is only one train per week and you’ll die if you don’t find it. What do you do?
Answer next week