On the road means means rising early at 4am to catch an an early morning flight from Adelaide; having breakfast in the Qantas Club; reading the newspapers whilst flying to Melbourne, then walking through the long corridors of Melbourne's air conditioned airport around 8.00--8.30 am:

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Melbourne airport, Melbourne, 2007

Then its walk outside the airport to catch a cab to the CBD, make some phone calls in the cab before being dropped off in the CBD; then working all day in a meeting on an upper level floor in this kind of air conditioned corporate building that could be in any city anywhere:

Gary Sauer-Thompson, 500 Collins Street, Melbourne, 2007

Then it is collapse time after the days work in the Qantas Club whilst waiting for the flight home:

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Qantas Club, Melbourne, 2007

Then catching a cab home and arriving home around 8.00 pm feeling wearied and jaded.

That is what being on the road means these days. So many business people do it.The airports become nodal points.

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