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• A powerful and emotional narrative told only through imagery
• Gorgeously whimsical landscapes with hand-drawn art and frame-by-frame animations
• Handcrafted, pressure-free puzzles
• Unique delightful landscape-shaping mechanic
• A compact game experience perfect for a wanderlust-evoking escape
• Original and emotionally compelling soundtrack by SCNTFC
• Crisp drawings rendered in native resolution - even on your 4K monitor

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• OS *: Windows XP SP2+
• Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
• Memory: 1024 MB RAM
• Graphics: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities
• Storage: 2 GB available space
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Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, reconciliation, and hope. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and handcrafted world, embark on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving. A visual narrative about life’s precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans, uncover stories of the old man’s life told through beautiful vignettes of his memories. Interacting with the serene and whimsical environment, solve playful puzzles by shaping the landscape, growing the hills to create the old man’s path forward. During this compact gameplay experience, you’ll be transported to a vibrant and wishful world, exploring life’s complexities through the old man’s eyes. Meditatively delightful and reflective, Old Man’s Journey invites you to immerse yourself in quiet and inquisitive puzzles, and experience the old man’s heartache, regret, and hope. *** - Apple Design Award 2017 - Best Art Award 2017 Sense of Wonder Night - Excellence in Art Award 2017 Busan Indie Connect - Best Art and Innovation Award 2017 BIG Festival - Media Choice Award 2017 Indiecade Europe - Leftfield Selection 2017 EGX Reezed - GDC Selection 2017 Unity Showcase - Official Selection 2016 PAX - Digital Selection 2016 Indiecade - Official Selection 2016 Day of the Devs

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"May the road rise up to meet you" is the first line of an ancient Irish prayer on behalf of travelers. It goes on to wish for a journey of warm sunshine, soft rain and a fair wind.

Old Man's Journey is like the video game version of that old blessing, in which the mutability of the road traveled is the focus, rather than the traveler.

At the beginning of this game, the old man of the title receives a letter at his home, which concerns him greatly. He sets off on what looks to be a long journey. There's no dialogue in this game, but he's taking a large backpack and a walking stick.

He soon comes to a point where the road seems to stop, but pleasant hills grace the background of his two-dimensional landscape. So I point and click on one of those hills and line it up with the old man's position. And so, he is able to hop onto the new hill and proceed along his way.

This is, essentially, the entire game's activity. It's a series of puzzles in which I figure out how to move ridges and slopes so that they create a path forward. The hill on which the old man stands cannot be moved, so sometimes I have to point and click him someplace out of the way, while I line up the land.

There is no tutorial. No text whatsoever. Whenever I get stuck, I point-and-click my way through the puzzle. If I see something that looks interesting — a bell, a bike, a bucket — I click on it, and am sometimes rewarded with cute audio or cheerful animation.

Vienna-based developer Broken Rules is best known for And Yet It Moves , a 2009 game about paper shapes and environmental manipulation. In Old Man's Journey , it has introduced interesting variations that illuminate this theme, such as sheep who serve as obstacles that must be wrangled out of the way.

Later puzzles add a nice dash of complexity, including large wheels that are sent crashing down steep hills in order to bulldoze stone walls. There are also sections in which a train and a truck serve as rapid transportation, requiring almost arcade-like responses to the landscape in order to progress. These are less successful, but add a welcome change of pace.

In a way, this game is like a platformer, in which the platforms are the variable item, and the protagonist is almost incidental, at least insofar as the action plays out. I focus on tilting and shaping the landscape, rather than conquering it. It's a curiously creative feeling, even though it's basically mechanical.

Old Man's Journey successfully presents a 3D world constructed from two-dimensional materials. Many surprises appear once hills and mountains are moved around. As a result, the relatively straightforward puzzles managed to hold my interest for the duration of this short game.

At the end of each chapter, the old gent takes a rest and we are treated to a memory of his past, a story that adds up to regret, love and redemption. The story is told through lovely images that bristle with color, energy and meaning.

A simple mechanic and a basic tale are really only augmentations to Old Man's Journey 's main attraction, which is its beautiful rolling pastoral. This is a wonderfully pretty game.

Presented in a hand-painted style, it conveys the simplicity of a children's book, with the complexity of a layered world, based on an idyllic French countryside. The old man ventures through quaint villages, hardy country roads and breezy seaside lanes that offer wheeling vistas and outdoor scenes. He is assailed by weather and he comes across ominous ruins of an ancient land.

Sometimes he stops to do a bit of people watching — young lovers, a working man, a bad tempered old woman — and as often as not, these remind him of his own past, and off we go to the land of bittersweet memory.

Through these vignettes, the simply drawn old man becomes a whole human being who has lived his life and made his own choices, not all of them wise. Throughout the story, it's not clear how much of his life is a source of regret, and how much is an acknowledgement that he is who he is, that character is destiny. This gives the game an added feeling of narrative depth.

The result is a game that reminds me of a picture postcard, or maybe a whimsical poem written by a friend on a long vacation. Old Man’s Journey is sweet, meandering and undemanding, a pleasant while-away that's full of feeling, at least for as long as the wandering lasts.

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Wot I Think: Old Man's Journey

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Old Man's Journey [ official site ] is a beautiful and thoughtful mild landscape puzzler which is at its best when it focuses on tiny details or on strange delights. The interaction can meander into dullness but there are moments of melancholy beauty to be found and which are arresting enough that it makes the whole thing worthwhile. Here's Wot I Think:

Old Man's Journey has you helping the character of an old man across terrain as he heads off on a memory-provoking trip. The exact purpose of the journey only reveals itself at the very end, but for the meat of the game it's a thread which binds together the vignettes which tell the major events of his life.

In order to navigate you use your mouse to drag pieces of scenery up or down until they overlap with one another. The old man can then use those intersections to hop from one layer of the vista to another which is an interesting perspective shift.

In terms of the interface, when you move segments a set of yellow lines is overlaid onto the screen which shows you which surfaces can be moved and little yellow blobs mark intersection points so there's more clarity as to whether the old man will be ale to move across your layout.

You can't twiddle with the layer you're currently standing on so for some puzzles you'll need to shuffle your grey-maned charge back and forth as you line up the pastures and mountains, or click a little flock of sheep so they get out of the way.

At its best it's a delight. I loved the section where the old man has boarded a truck and the truck vrooms along winding mountain roads in a really pleasing way as you drag them upwards and back down.

Other times it's a finicky frustration. A section with a train was prone to stop-starting in an irritating way because it was hard to make out my pastel-coloured mouse against the pastel-coloured scenery and thus I wasn't warping the land fast enough. There's also the problem where sometimes you'll click to move a sheep but it'll start the man ambling to that spot instead so you'll find yourself needing to undo that movement before doing the thing you intended.

The camera can also end up in some awkward spots, panning over to a different section of screen if you move too far or with a big chunk of land obscuring the screen for a little while because you've transitioned to a closer view while a swoop of hillside is in the way. I do wonder if this is a mechanic which is far nicer to use on touch screen, letting a child pull the ground this way and that with pudgy fingers or smoothing those bits out yourself while curled up on the sofa. On PC it just didn't really resonate.

Infinitely nicer are the tiny touches of animation or art. There was a moment – a tiny, tiny moment where the old man is suddenly in the eyeline of a young child as they both ride on the train and he does that little wave I always find myself doing when I meet a mischievous toddler's gaze on public transport. It was such an oddly familiar and human gesture and one I realised I haven't ever seen in a game before. He then turns and looks out of the window, remembering his own child. For me, those five seconds of a game that lasts maybe an hour would have made the entire thing worthwhile.

It's a slight game in some respects. The movement puzzles don't often feel like they add anything to the experience other than keeping you busy with "interaction" and the conclusion felt… rushed? I'm not sure if I quite mean rushed in the sense that it was fast, but it felt like it didn't have the emotional punch of some previous moments and that if you wanted that melancholy jolt you'd have to work for it. Without going full spoilers I'd say it's a section where I would have preferred the game dictate the pace rather than allowing the player to click through to make progress because I think lingering the wrong amount of time or failing to linger at all would both affect the emotion there. I also think having to cede control would be meaningful.

In terms of the overall experience, I found that although the game itself could stray into dullness or sentimentality, the artwork was consistently wonderful. A storm which sent the waves crashing against cliffs felt appropriately blustery and perilous, while a vignette set on a voyage far North had an absolutely stunning ethereal beauty and a contrasting human element which expressed an emotional cocktail of a complexity I don't associate with games. I've set that one as my desktop wallpaper because it felt important and beautiful.

Oh, and the hot air balloon segment! So pretty!

And so, Old Man's Journey is a game with all of these prickles of delight but where the interstitial matter often feels humdrum. It's short enough that you can still pick those delights out even if you're not satisfied with the rest of the interactions, but you can't help but wonder, what if it had found a way to make the whole thing shine?

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Welcome to the official TA walkthrough for Old Man's Journey, a puzzle adventure developed by Broken Rules. It should come as no surprise that you play as an old man on a journey, reflecting on life's precious moments and broken dreams all the while. The title's simple, yet the rich story is told through beautiful visuals, with frequent breaks encouraging calm contemplation along the way. Mechanically, the game revolves around the ability to move hills, cliffs, and structures to create a path from point A to point B.

Nearly all of the game's 12 achievements are missable, but can be earned easily through simple actions as you make your way through the story. There is a chapter select in case you miss anything on the first run. Expect between 1 and 2 hours for the full 1000 GS.

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Old Man's Journey: Everything you need to know

Old Man's Journey is a point-and-click adventure game from the indie game studio known as Broken Rules. The game hit the App Store in May 2017 and quickly garnered praise, by both critics and players, for its amazing visuals and superb storytelling.

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The absolutely beautiful and heart-wrenching game Old Man's Journey is now available on Nintendo Switch.

Although the hardware is different, the Nintendo Switch edition is identical to the mobile game that launched last year. If you're just diving into Old Man's Journey, here are some things you should know for both the Switch and iOS versions!

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The objective

Being a point-and-click adventure game with absolutely no dialogue, Old Man's Journey lets you figure out what you need to do on your own.

Left to your own devices, you quickly figure out that your goal in the game is to journey across the various landscapes and uncover the mystery of this old man's past. In order to do this successfully, you'll need to solve a few simple but rewarding puzzles.

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While you can tap or select anywhere on the screen, the old man won't be able to reach every location on the first try; sometimes you need to do a little terra-morphing.

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If you tap or select on the hills and other scenery in the game, you'll notice a faint yellow outline appear around the edges. You can drag your finger up and down in order to manipulate the scenery around you and allow the old man to reach new locations.

Waterfalls are helpful

It may seem scary to tell the old man to ride down a waterfall, but at some points, in the game it will be necessary.

If you instruct the old man to walk on the waterfalls you encounter during the game, they will gently carry you downwards, allowing you to reach lower platforms.

Keep the train on the tracks

At some point in the game, you will board a train that takes you across the beautiful countryside; however, the train tracks are all over the place.

Just like you did with the hills in the game, you'll need to drag the tracks up or down so the train can keep moving.

On more than one occasion, you will come across some animals in the game. Some are there to help you and some get in your way. A good rule of thumb is to interact with the animals you encounter and see how they behave.

For example, early on in the game, there is a cat you can follow, which helps guide you through that part of the game. A little later on, you'll come across some sheep that you'll need shoo out of your way so you can continue.

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Updated February 2018: Updated for the Nintendo Switch release.

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Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, reconciliation, and hope. Entrenched in a beautifully sunkissed and hand-crafted world, embark on a heartfelt journey interwoven with lighthearted and pressure-free puzzle solving.

A visual narrative about life’s precious moments, broken dreams, and changed plans, uncover stories of the old man’s life told through beautiful vignettes of his memories. Interacting with the serene and whimsical environment, solve playful puzzles by shaping the landscape, growing the hills to create the old man’s path forward.

During this compact gameplay experience, you’ll be transported to a vibrant and wishful world, exploring life’s complexities through the old man’s eyes.

Meditatively delightful and reflective, Old Man’s Journey invites you to immerse yourself in quiet and inquisitive puzzles, and experience the old man’s heartache, regret, and hope.

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The hit indie title Old Man’s Journey , which debuted five years ago on both iOS and Android, has received the Apple Arcade treatment and is available right now! This little puzzle adventure game with deep themes of grief, life as a whole, and many other heart-touching themes saw a lot of success back then and is set to introduce itself to those that may have missed it back then.

Old Man’s Journey is truly just a lovely little success story and was clearly made with the intent of passing along a very kind message given its actual content. This beautiful 2D side-scroller sees you take on the role of the titular old man as you create his path forward, but it runs much deeper than that as you progress.

What begins as a peaceful journey eventually puts you through themes of heartbreak, of plans going awry, but also of hope and beauty and finding meaning through that struggle. It makes for a short experience that sticks with you after you roll credits and really makes you think about where you are in your own life.

Think something like A Short Hike or even Spiritfarer and you’re not too far off, at least in terms of story content. All of these games are made with what at first might seem like a tragic concept, but eventually tie into a positive message. Old Man’s Journey is no different in this regard, and I really can’t praise it enough. This is absolutely one that’s worth your time.

And, to make the deal even sweeter, if you’re an Apple Arcade subscriber, you can grab it at the link below as part of your membership! And if those words alone haven’t convinced you, why not take a peek at our previous review of the game and see what it’s all about?!

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• John Tinniswood has recently become the world's oldest man at 111.
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• It includes having a broad outlook, doing everything in moderation, and always trying your best.

In the UK in 1912, the Suffragettes were vandalizing post boxes to win the right to vote and the Titanic was registered in the port city of Liverpool before its maiden, and only, voyage. Also registered in Liverpool in 1912 was the birth of John Tinniswood, who has just become the world's oldest man.

Tinniswood, who lives in Southport, UK, was born on August 26, 1912, making him 111 years and 226 days old. Guinness World Records declared him the world's oldest man earlier this month, after the titleholder, Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela, died at the age of 114 and 311 days.

Tinniswood is also the world's oldest surviving male World War II veteran . He served in an admin role for the British Army Pay Corps, which involved logistical work like organizing food supplies and locating stranded soldiers. He then worked in admin and accountancy for the Royal Mail, the UK's postal service, as well as Shell and BP before he retired in 1972.

Tinniswood was married to his wife, Blodwen, who died in 1986, for 44 years. The couple had four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

The staff at his residential home describe Tinniswood as a "big chatterbox," per Guinness World Records. Even at 111 years old , he is mobile and independent, managing his own finances and getting out of bed unassisted.

Tinniswood is unphased by his new title, telling Guinness World Records it "doesn't make any difference to me at all. I accept it for what it is."

Tinniswood has 3 pieces of life advice for younger people

Tinniswood's biggest piece of advice for people wanting to live as long as him is to do everything in moderation .

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"If you drink too much, or you eat too much, or you walk too much, if you do too much of anything, you're going to suffer eventually," he said. "Never over-tax your system" if you want a healthy life, he told BBC News.

He doesn't follow a specific diet , telling Guinness World Records, "I eat what they give me, and so does everybody else" — apart from fish and chips, the British classic, for dinner every Friday.

He doesn't smoke and rarely drinks alcohol, two habits that are great for longevity.

In 2022, he told BBC News that it's also important to "broaden your vision."

"Don't stay with one thing all the time or you'll be on a narrow path," he said.

But no matter what you're doing, "always do the best you can, whether you're learning something or whether you're teaching someone," he told Guinness World Records. "Give it all you've got. Otherwise, it's not worth bothering with."

This echoes research linking a positive mindset and a sense of purpose to longevity .

Ultimately, though, Tinniswood thinks he mostly reached his old age out of "pure luck."

"You either live long or you live short, and you can't do much about it," he said.

Business Insider previously reported on Elizabeth Francis — the oldest person in the US — and her longevity tips .

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They got their son a pet octopus. Weeks later, there were 50 more.

Cameron Clifford had finally given in to his son’s pleas and bought him a pet octopus. After several weeks, he was getting the hang of caring for their new tentacled pet — then he discovered what looked liked dozens of “puffed-up, clear Tic Tacs” inside its den.

Terrance was not a male octopus, as they had first thought. Her new tank in Cal Clifford’s bedroom was filled with dozens of eggs.

But that was only the first twist in a saga playing out in Edmond, Okla., that captivated thousands of people on social media. The biggest surprise, Clifford said, actually came one night in February, when he picked up one of the eggs — which he had long assumed weren’t fertilized — and accidentally popped it. What he thought was a “blob of some strange liquid” came out and fell back into the tank.

Seconds later, that blob started swimming. It was a tiny version of Terrance.

“I just screamed my wife’s name,” Clifford, 36, told The Washington Post. “That started the whole stress of it because now we felt this immense responsibility of taking care of these babies.”

Over the next week, the Cliffords tried to catch the hatchlings. Suddenly, the family was tending to 50 baby California two-spot octopuses — also known as bimacs.

The mission to keep them alive has been complex, time-consuming and expensive. Clifford estimates that the special tanks and other equipment they’ve purchased have cost his family about as much as a used car.

But it’s also been joyful, said Clifford, a dentist whose TikTok videos chronicling the ups and downs of caring for octopuses have garnered millions of viewers, brought in support from across the country and been called “nothing short of remarkable” by one expert.

“It’s something that I think a lot of people need because there’s so much bad news in the world,” Clifford said. But he’s quick to add a warning: “Having an octopus is hard. It’s laborsome and expensive. It’s wet. It’s all of the above. So you shouldn’t do it if you’re not prepared to follow through.”

How the Cliffords wound up owning about 90 percent of all octopuses in Oklahoma is a journey that begins with his son’s love of marine biology — especially octopuses. Cal, despite living far from the ocean, had begged for a pet octopus for years. Since he was 2, Cal has requested octopus-themed parties and dressed up as the animal for Halloween.

By the time Cal was 8, Clifford said it was clear it wasn’t just a phase. So one day, Clifford stopped at a local aquarium store and asked if it was possible to buy an octopus.

It was, technically , Clifford recalled an employee telling him, but it wouldn’t be a good first pet.

Clifford mentioned the conversation over dinner, and Cal’s face lit up, he said. When Clifford shared a video of Cal’s reactions with their loved ones, they told him he “was going be the worst father” if he didn’t follow through.

Clifford took the hint and in August bought a secondhand 60-gallon tank. On Cal’s birthday in October, an octopus arrived by mail, swimming inside a bag of water.

Without hesitation, Cal declared the octopus’s name would be Terrance after the mischievous character in the Wayside School children’s book series.

Terrance quickly became a beloved member of the Clifford household, which was why seeing eggs in the tank in December was devastating: Octopuses usually die soon after laying eggs.

After consulting experts, Clifford figured the eggs hadn’t been fertilized since Terrance — whom they now occasionally called Terry — hadn’t been around a male in several weeks. But in February, when Clifford saw an egg that had detached from Terrance’s den and decided to inspect it more closely, baby No. 1 was born: Pearl.

Over the next few days, 49 more babies followed, including Seaoncé, Jay Sea, Swim Shady, Squid Cudi, Bill Nye the Octopi and Champ, who was named by a friend of Clifford’s who is going through cancer treatment.

Turns out it wasn’t a case of “Bimaculate Conception,” as Clifford put it, using a riff on Terrance’s breed. Terrance, who was found off California’s coast, mated before she was caught by a diver. The delayed delivery was a product of octopuses’ ability to withhold laying their eggs until they feel safe.

The prospect of caring for 51 octopuses was daunting, Clifford said. But luckily, he added, he’s not alone. Tim Tytle, 80, a retired radiologist who also owns two octopuses — in addition to thousands of geckos, scores of sea horses and dozens of venomous lizards — has been a big help. The two first met around January, when Tytle found out the Cliffords were the only other private octopus owners in Oklahoma and have been a source of support for each other ever since, Tytle said.

Clifford said Tytle was his first call the night he discovered baby Pearl. Soon, the two were scouring books and brainstorming how to get the right food and containers for the hatchlings.

A lot of the octopus babies died in the beginning, especially in their transport to Tytle’s place after a leak upended Clifford’s home. But Tytle said they’ve learned a lot, “and now it’s so much easier.”

Tytle owns a duplex where he keeps most of his pets, and the 23 remaining octopuses now live there. The babies are fed a daily serving of live mysid shrimp Tytle sources from the East Coast. Each octopus is kept in its own plastic container to prevent cannibalization. Soon, they’ll move to a new, 180-gallon tank worth upward of $10,000 that Tytle purchased.

Raising the sea creatures is expensive and time-consuming, but Tytle said the “amazing” animals are worth it.

“They’re very intelligent ,” he said. “Octopuses know one person for another and can change color by just snapping your fingers.”

Clifford and Tytle are now on a mission to find good homes for the octopuses. Clifford even hired an intern to help contact research institutes, aquariums and sanctuaries. Though lots of people have volunteered to take a miniature Terrance, Clifford said they won’t give the babies to private owners. So far, some researchers and professors have expressed interest, he said.

Paul Clarkson, director of husbandry operations at California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium, said finding aquariums to take the babies could prove difficult. Bimacs don’t necessarily have the wow factor associated with other breeds, like the giant Pacific octopus . Still, he applauded Clifford’s efforts to find places that can properly care for the octopuses.

Clarkson admits he’s skeptical of families trying to raise octopuses, but said seeing what the Cliffords accomplished is “pretty remarkable” — especially since octopuses have such a high mortality rate when they’re young.

While he cautioned that octopuses probably don’t belong in most households, Clarkson said he’s delighted that the Cliffords’ journey has introduced more people to the mysterious species.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if 10 to 20 years down the line, there’s some young marine biologist saying, ‘Oh, yeah, it was Terrance the octopus that got me jazzed about this,’” Clarkson said. “It’s just like when I was watching Jacques Cousteau videos when I was a kid.”

Artista Vista celebrates 32 years: A journey of growth and community impact

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Vista is gearing up to host it’s annual Artista Vista.

Executive Director of the Congaree Vista Guild Abby Anderson joined Sunrise to talk more about the weekend fun.

The art-centric event offers something for everyone. The three-day stretch of fun begins Friday with an Art Gallery Crawl throughout the Vista.

Saturday, organizers will host free events at several locations, giving visitors the chance to view live artist demonstrations. On Sunday, The Vista presents Live on Lincoln.

Tickets can be purchased here .

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Perched against each other in the long green grass, the young Scholl siblings take a quick break, just long enough to down an egg sandwich, a cool drink, and a few lollies.

Once they dust off their dirty jeans, big sister Josie helps youngest brother Bennett mount his horse, guiding his tiny legs into the stirrups.

That's the job of a big sister — to watch over the younger ones during this epic 70-kilometre land expedition.

Josie, 13, Koby, 9, and Bennett, 7, are the youngest riders in the biennial Eidsvold Cattle Drive in country Queensland.

"I liked coming on it. We get to chase the cattle," Koby beamed.

Their week-long journey tailed 450 head of cattle, crisscrossing the spectacular emerald countryside given new life from recent rain.

Blue gums, iron barks, and bottle trees line the makeshift dirt paths as they retrace the century-old stockmen's routes.

"It's all about driving cattle like they did back years ago," Josie said.

Their mother Bec Scholl keeps a watchful eye from afar, but she knows they don't need it.

"As a mum it's so wonderful to see," she said.

"I think it's the most unique experience I can have with my kids, and you know the pressure's off."

Resilience is a hallmark of the spirit of the drover and these kids from the bush have it in spades.

They live on a cattle property near Eidsvold, five hours' drive north of Brisbane, with their mum.

It's out here in the open hollows and flats on the land of the Wakka Wakka, Gurang Gurang, and Wulli Wulli people that the Scholl children get a "holiday" from life on the farm.

"To see my children having such a great time and they're very relaxed, that's a really rewarding experience as a parent," Ms Scholl said.

Boss drover Bruce Tye was impressed that the children were "surprisingly good" at keeping up with experienced drovers more than four times their age.

Averaging 10 to 15 kilometres a day, the journey is a "bucket list" trip for the motley crew.

"We have endurance riders, trail riders, pony clubbers, and people that just want to have a look at the country and get away from the traffic and madness of town," Mr Tye said.

"That's a lot of people having a lot of fun and all getting along."

Quiet chatter and friendly banter break up the long sweaty hours on top of the horses.

And as the stars come out the campfire helps beat the chill as the riders rest their aching bodies, safely tucked inside their canvas swags.

They're all buzzing knowing they've raised more than $150,000 for charities including LifeFlight and the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

"As much as I love the cattle drive and the experience … I personally have benefited from those services," said Ms Scholl, who is also the Eidsvold Cattle Drive president.

"We've all got a story. We've all known someone or had had a trip [in the helicopter] ourselves. So it's really important."

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A Smyrna man was shot and killed and another man was injured Friday night in a shooting at an apartment complex at the 3300 block of Murfreesboro Pike in the Antioch area, according to Nashville police.

Vidal York, 23, was killed. A 19-year-old who arrived with York at the Cascade Apartments was wounded.

York was found lying in the parking lot and then rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The 19-year-old's injuries weren't considered critical and he was treated and released from a hospital, according to police.

The call came in just after 9 p.m., police said. A suspect was not in custody, according to police on Saturday.

Police believe the shooter fled the apartment complex by automobile. A motive wasn't immediately known.

The shooting is being investigated as a homicide. Anyone with information is asked to call 615-742-7463.

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Bob Sagoo: Empowering an AAC User as a Parent Talking With Tech AAC Podcast

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