A TRAVELLING Rotarian has stopped in Mount Gambier to share the great things about Rotary in Australia.
Driving in a hard-to-miss bright yellow car covered in Rotary stickers, which he calls a ‘mobile billboard’, Caboolture Rotary Club president Peter Brown stopped in Mount Gambier on last week to catch up with the Mount Gambier Lakes Rotary Club.
Mount Gambier is just one stop on an epic six month long journey, visiting Rotary clubs around the country.
The trip was started as a way to celebrate 100 years of Rotary in Australia.
“We had a vehicle that was entered in the Variety Bash which is painted with Rotary signage and I felt it could be of more benefit than just at a local level, so the Caboolture Rotary approved my taking it on the road trip to visit 100 clubs around Australia,” he said.
The trip was originally planned for 2021, but Covid struck and the trip had to be extended into this year.
“I’m already at well over 30,000 kilometres and I still have to get to Melbourne, Tasmania and then home again,” he said.
“I was trying to do it in January to June last year and then it kept getting extended but I said ‘I’m not quitting’ and I kept going.”
He said the trip had introduced him to a lot of new places, including Mount Gambier, which he had never visited before.
“I love the architecture, I reckon I could stay here a month and not get bored with it,” Mr Brown said.
“It’s just beautiful, I love it.”
