2024 LEJOG – Lands End to John O’Groats – Straggling Stu

StragglingStu’s idea of how LEJOG might go. Other riders have different ideas

Day -1 GCR
Day -2 Perth to Cairns
Day 50 Tanami Tootle departure lounge Broome
Day 49 Tanami Tootle Broome Time!
Day 48 Tanami Tootle Broome recovery 0km
Day 47 Tanami Tootle Broome!!!!! 62km
Day 46 Tanami Tootle 105km from Willare Roadhouse
Day 45 Tanami Tootle Willare Roadhouse 50km
Day 44 Tanami Tootle Camballin Turn Off 129km
Day 43 Tanami Tootle 54km
Day 42 Tanami Tootle Fitzroy Crossing 80km
Day 41 TANAMI TOOTLE Ngumban Cliffs 100km
Day 40 Tanami Tootle 114km
Day 38 & 39 Tanami Tootle Resting Halls Creek
Day 37 Tanami Tootle Halls Creek!!!!! End of the Tanami Road but the Tootle continues 56km
Day 36 Tanami Tootle to start of Tanami bitumen work zone at Ruby Plains homestead 67km
Day 35 Tanami Tootle from Wolffe Creek Crater back on to Tanami Road 38km
DAY 34 Tanami Tootle Wolffe Creek Crater 50km
DAY 33 Tanami Tootle 69km including 18 past Bililuna
Day 32 and 33 Tanami Tootle Bililuna 57km
Day 31 Tanami Tootle on a generally very good road 51km.
Day 30 Tanami Tootle past the WA border 47km
Day 29 Tanami Tootle 42km (and totally worn out, down to 1km stages between rests)
Day 28 Tanami Tootle 60.8km but this includes about 1.5km total going into and out of Rabbit Flat Road House (CLOSED since 2011)
Day 27 Tanami Tootle 49 km
DAY 26 Tanami Tootle to 23km south of The Granites goldmine 69.9km
DAY 25 Tanami Tootle 42km, end of the bitumen. Start of the real dirt work.
DAY 24 Tanami Tootle north from Yuendumu 87 km Don left his glasses at “Floodway” sign
DAY 23 Tanami Tootle Yuendumu 23km from Tilmouth Well to Yuendumu and 34km beyond 57km
DAY 22 Tanami Tootle to 25 km east of Yuendumu 83 km .
Day 21 Tanami Tootle Tilmouth Well roadhouse 23 km
Day 20 Tanami Tootle almost to Tilmouth Well Road House 99.7km
Day 19 Tanami Tootle Alice Springs onto the Tanami Road, 64km
Day 18 Alice Springs and preparations for the Tanami, Christine says ‘farewell’because of bike wheel fail
Day 17 Tanami Tootle Simpsons Gap and Alice Springs, about 75 km
Day 15 Tanami Tootle Ellery Creek Big Hole 49km
Day 16 Standley Chasm 59 km
Day 14 Tanami Tootle 51km to Ormiston Gorge 49km
Day 13 Tanami Tootle, back on the bitumen 79 km
Day 12 Tanami Tootle 60 km
Day 11 Tanami Tootle 60 km
Day 10 Tanami Tootle about 40km
Day 9 Tanami Tootle about 60km
Day 8 Tanami Tootle to Kings Canyon and resort 50 km
Day 7 Tanami Tootle Kings Creek Station 34 km
Day 6? Tanami Tootle, nearly to Kings Creek Station campground, 60 km?
Day 5 Tanami Tootle Lasseter Hwy/Luritja Road t/o 51 km
Day 4 Tanami Tootle – on the road at last – Curtin Springs 85.4km
Day 3 Tanami Tootle Kulta Juru (The Olgas) dawn
Day 2 Tanami Tootle Test ride to Uluru (The Rock)