A much better day than the first two on the road. Warmish, dry, sunny, wind now a cross wind easterly. Finished up bush camping 75 km east of Kings Canyon Resort. A much more organised dinner with the Cook’s and …
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Day 5 Tanami Tootle Lasseter Hwy/Luritja Road t/o 51 km
Too cold, too wet, too windy
Only 51 km today but we worked for it.
Christine found a spot under the desert oaks and adjacent to the barbed wire fence. A quick dinner prepared by shaking, shivering hands (about 5 …
Day 4 Tanami Tootle – on the road at last – Curtin Springs 85.4km
Say 4 Tanami Tootle
Good night.Everyone in or near bed in a 4 bed donger at Curtin Springs. Very cold ride (Max 9C decreasing to 5C as the day drew on, medium headwind and rain). Got to Cutin Springs on …
Day 3 Tanami Tootle Kulta Juru (The Olgas) dawn
Alarm at 4:50 am to get ‘breakfast’ before the 5:40 bus to Kata Tjuta. Halfway through the hot chocolate the bus pulled in 100m away, dumped the coffee and fast walked to it to see it disappear down the road. …
Day 2 Tanami Tootle Test ride to Uluru (The Rock)
Bit slow getting up but all up and moved over to the Kulture training cafe for a breakfast roll and coffee/tea.
A bit later and with uffing and puffin to put more air in the tyres we had all the …
Day 1 Tanami Tootle – Arriving at Yulara/Uluru
Arrived in Yulara campground at about 3pm (Central time) after getting out of bed at 3am (WST) and changing planes in Melbourne at 1230 pm (AEST). BEDTIME!
At the Outback Lodge with the Tootlers after 3 of 4 assembled bikes …
LEJOG Day 42 Epilogue
Takeaways from the LEJOG experience?
The Brits don’t eat green vegetables. Or red ones. Our trip was in some part a quest for veggies.
LEJOG was great fun, not too strenuous but with a goal that set a pace that …
LEJOG Day 41 Home to Perth (Australia)
Some frantic efforts trying to get from our flat in Tower Hamlets to Liverpool Street Station for the train to Stanstead. John and Christine walked her boxed bike to the station, but I caught a black cab which took about …
LEJOG Day 38-40 London
Exhilerating to ride through London from Euston to Tower Hamlets at ten o’clock at night. Got to our flat, called the manager to let us in and then found out the flats have really good secure bike parking (no need …
LEJOG DAY 37-38 The Orkneys and stone circles then train to London
LEJOG finished its time to pack up and go home. But first we have to fill in two nights before catching the train back to London.
(Train had been organised over a half hour phone call with a very helpful …
LEJOG DAY 36 JOHN O’GROATS!!!!!! 23 km, 267m
(+ 39 km, 342 m on way back including to Duncansby Head lighthouse)
Not happy or anything but…… we finished!
More later when the celebratory beer has sunk in. And we are back in internet range.
And we are back…….…
LEJOG DAY 35 MELNESS / TONGUE TO THURSO 77km, 1020m
Might as well go out on a big one. The most (or nearly most) daily ascent of the trip. But the slopes were fairly gentle except for what must have been nearly .5 km of 1:10 coming out of Tongue. …
LEJOG 34 DURNESS TO MELNESS (near the Kyle of Tongue) 48.4 km 774 m
Excuse me, I am going to The Bog, anyone coming? Really, the big event today was crossing The Moline, or in transliteration “The Bog”, a 15 km peat Bog between Loch Hope Aand Tongue. The only building on The Moline …
LEJOG DAY 33 KINLOCHBERVIE TO DURNESS 37 km, 442 m
So short! But Scotland is so amazingly photogenic that we were stopping every half kilometre for photos. Magnificent scenery.
Also stopping every hundred metres to let camper vans and the odd truck pass or overtake. That “Western 500” road route …
LEJOG DAY 32 Carnegie Lodge at Falls of Shin, Altnagar to Kinlochbervie 83 km, 698m
What a shame to leave Andrew Carnegie’s weekender with its 4 poster bed, trouser press by the bedroom door and servant’s stairs at the opposite end of the building to the main entrance. Alas.
Down the loose gravel drive and …