Well I should have drunk more water! And taken more electrolytes probably. Last night at our first truly bush camp on the bank of a nearly dry creek I cooked the spaghetti and tuna diner and then while eating the …
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Day 3 Wyndham, King River and on to the Kurunji Track
Up from the last beds in dongas that we’ll have for a week and on the road by about 9 am. We were all feeling good so the pace was brisk as the weather warmed in to the low-30s Celsius. …
Day 2 Parry Creek Farm to Wyndham 53 km
After a beer and barramundi dinner at the camp restaurant and early night it was a moderately early morning start for the 26 kms in to Wyndham. Wyndham is definitely a small town but has its attractions. I was very …
Day 1 Kununurra to Parry Creek Farm 87km
Day 1 (there was no Day 0!)
All the preparations were done, the bikes were loaded as we had breakfast and then we set off. No great drama, someone remembered that it was traditional to get a leaving photo so …
Day 0 – final preps
Getting close now.
A day of food shopping for the anticipated two days to Wyndham via the Parry Creek Road. We didn’t think that Wyndham would have much in the shop so we filled up with nuts, bottled gas and …
Day -1 Ivanhoe Crossing and Lake argyle
The energetic ones (that is everyone else) shamed me into joining them on a morning ride out to the famed Ivanhoe Crossing. Only shin deep but tidal so full of saltwater crocodiles. Even the local fisherman was standing well back …
Day -2 paffhing around in kununurra
Still finding our bearings, that is finding the supermarkets and coffee shops. Bruce and Christine showed their organisational prowess and found and booked us on to the Lake Argyle cruise for tomorrow.
Otherwise, a visit to the Sunday street market, …
Day -3 Kununurra Preparation for departure
Bruce, Christine and I flew into Kununurra (lovely name isn’t it? Beats Bullock Creek or Innaloo) on Saturday 18 July to get ready for the adventure. Linda flew in on Sunday.
We had booked two rooms at the …
Day -7 14 July Starting the preparation
New chain as previous was 3/32 inch overlong over 12 inches, (reasonably worn), took the rear cluster off and cleaned it in turpentine, washed the bike, put on new pedals as right hand one was starting to wobble and wouldn’t …
Day 6 Thursday and joining the chicken run back to Australia
The TransAmerica Ride that wasn’t
Thank you everyone for the fabulous March send off to my TransAmerica ride.
A great night full of camaraderie and hope in the face of the distant clouds of conrona virus. Rob Boggs took Robyn …
Day 1 2020 03 15 Hong Kong
Wow, a lovely Farewell dinner at Del Amici in Perth with 35 friends. The friends supplied the bon homie, Bruce some transit dollars for Hong Kong and Vancouver and a couple of surgical anti-coronavirus masks,Rob Boggs a trip to the …
AAALL NEARING BOARDING
Just found out a month before going that straggligstu.com had stopped working!
Disaster, sour looks from significant other.
Fortunately Rashmei from Bluehost webhosting chat help had the problem fixed in minutes. A plugin that does automatic updates posts was doing …
Adding the new gear
The bulk of my gear is as used on the previous rides but updated where necessary;
- a new tent – Big Agnes Mazanares 2; compared to my
18 year old OzExplorer ridge tent the Mazanares 2 is- lighter (1.3kg vs
AaaaaLlll Aboard! Transamerica
It starts with a few days in Vancouver, where else would you start riding across the USA? As I …
2020 – TransAmerica
2020 TransAmerica. This is one of the classic long distance bicycle rides and I am about to start it.
The route is based on the Adventure …