Among lives full of adventures, Roma and Ian Richards still share, and enjoy, the one that began seven decades ago.
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The Wodonga couple marked their 70th wedding anniversary officially on Tuesday, but their celebrations will continue this week as they travel to visit family and friends in Queensland.
Such a journey is small compared with previous trips they have taken over much of the world, flown by Mr Richards in their single engine aeroplane and often joined by their good friends David and Elaine Mann.
Flights to and from England, around Australia, around Alaska, from North America to Europe, through Asia and the Pacific; there's barely a corner of the world they have not traversed.
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But their time together began in the North Albury Youth Hall, when a young pharmacist from Maryborough attended his first dance in his new town.
"Well into the evening, 'The next dance will be ladies' choice'," Mr Richards, now 95, recalled.
"I saw him and that was it, the rest is history, really," Mrs Richards, nee Chick and then a nurse, added.
Married on Saturday, August 6, 1949, in Albury Baptist Church, the couple almost immediately headed for Fiji, where Mr Richards worked with a large firm in a town without electricity.
"Ian started work on the Friday, it wasn't even a week afterwards," Mrs Richards, 94, said.
They spent about four years in Fiji, an experience they say stood them in good stead later, and then moved to Maryborough for 17 years before settling in Wodonga 50 years ago.
Stints working in New Zealand and Alice Springs also formed part of Mr Richards' career, which included their own pharmacy business as well as locum work. He retired at the age of 79.
Mr and Mrs Richards raised five children and are now grandparents and great-grandparents many times over.
They have remained involved with Probus and Rotary, Mr Richards being a foundation member of the Rotary Club of Belvoir Wodonga.
He gained his pilot's licence when aged about 40 years and the Flying Rotarians, a Rotary group for members interested in aviation, linked them with like-minded enthusiasts.
Mr Richards pays tribute to his wife for always being willing to accompany him on flights, but Mrs Richards admits conditions on the small plane could be frightening.
"Lighting, thunder, rain banging against the windscreen," she said.
But all did eventually end well and the Richards still consider themselves fortunate in many ways, particularly in terms of health, friends and family.
