Sarah Rodigari is a performance artist who has been living in Melbourne for the last little bit of her life. She has made the apparently startling decision to move back to her old stomping ground, Sydney. And how to do it, she pondered. She sold all of her goods old-school conceptual artist style and starting afresh, she has literally taken her feet on the road, walking from Melbourne to Sydney with just a backpack of belongings. All very romantic, you might think. Sarah did too. When I spoke with her over the weekend she had made it to that grand old capital Canberra and three weeks of walking in she is knee deep in the thick of not-so-romantic-musings-on-the-Australian-interior. Daily routine? If I am in my tent I usually wake with the sun and then I have to wait around for my tent to dry. I am generally on the road by 10am. 3 hours of walking usually pulls me up for a little bit and then I stop walking for the day around 4pm or as soon I get to my town for the night. I need to get there by 4pm to make sure I have enough time to either find a bed for the night or a safe place to camp. Although, my days do really depend who I am walking with – everyone has been different. Have you spent most of your time walking with other people? After three weeks I think I have spent five days walking solo. Old friends have come along and met me and it has been nice to have the time to walk and talk and get to know each other all over again. I haven't walked with any strangers yet but I tend to meet a lot of people once I get to the towns and strangers are more likely to offer beds, food or lifts rather than walking time. They think I am pretty strange for walking, really. Thoughts of regional Australia? It seems to me to be a really lonely place. People are really friendly though and really want conversation which I guess I see as a result of being lonely. The conversations have been great though and I have been amazed at the people I have met. Last week I was invited to a shed in the middle of nowhere which was a sort of makeshift bar and all very Wolf Creek but the next day one of the farmers took my friend and I to his farm and showed us how to shear a sheep and that was a pretty amazing experience to have. People really love to show you what they do. And I have discovered that there is a mouse plague! Something that I would never have known if I didn't come out here. I had a mouse in my tent the other night! Differences between Victoria and New South Wales? I noticed a huge difference once I got to the border at Albury. Basically, in NSW the train line doesn't follow the Hume Highway (which I had followed from Melbourne) so I actually spent two days in Albury trying to decide which road to take out. Also, the distance between towns in far greater in NSW and as a result I have had to go a bit more cross-country and be more aware of my route in order to make it to the next town by days end. Has the trip met your expectations so far? I guess before I started out I thought it would be all wilderness hiking and camping and all very romantic like an American road movie. But it hasn't been. I have become a little bit Crocodile Dundee zen in that I have had to be very aware of what is going on around me at all times. I think though I have loosened up a little and become more relaxed in going with the flow. Everyday is different, the offer of a lift dictates where I will go that day and my conversations with one person will flow into my next conversations so it has been a good lesson in learning to go with it. You can meet (or walk with!) Sarah as she strolls into Sydney town on Sunday July 24. There will be an afternoon tea at Performance Space, CarriageWorks to greet her. You can follow Sarah on her journey via her blog Strategies for Leaving and Arriving Home.