Cumulative distance: 1649 kms
Here we are ready to go from Morag's house.I wrote an extensive Blog last night but the signal dropped out before it uploaded!! So far we have had low battery and low signal stopping the Blog, but tonight we are in Norseman and all is good.
Well we left Melbourne on Thursday in time to hit the morning rush hour. Normally that isn't a problem on a bike, but Alan had his wide panniers on and couldn't lane split, so we had to sit in the traffic queues with the tin tops. It took us 1 1/2 hours to get free of Melbourne.
We hit the Western Hwy to Adelaide a distance of 743 km. For you N-Irelanders that is Belfast to Cork and 1/3 the way back again. We would be doing that sort of distance every day for the next week.
The photo is of a very Big Koala outside Horsham. Australia abounds with big things and I will be posting them as we go. Alan and I almost lost each other when I stopped to take this photo. He didn't hear my horn as he was plugged into his iPod and wouldn't hear if a truck was going to run him over. We hadn't yet figured out how to use the UHF radios we had brought so it was just by good luck we met up in a petrol station down the road.
We rode on into South Australia (SA) and the temperature started to rise to 35 degrees C and stayed there until we reached Adelaide. We hit the evening rush hour there and sweated our way through heavy traffic until we reached Gerry Hood's house near the beach. Mabel (Alan's GPS) couldn't find the house number because it was too new.
We eventually found her and had a good night especially the Lasagne.
So far no problems except for Mabel!
Well we left Melbourne on Thursday in time to hit the morning rush hour. Normally that isn't a problem on a bike, but Alan had his wide panniers on and couldn't lane split, so we had to sit in the traffic queues with the tin tops. It took us 1 1/2 hours to get free of Melbourne.
We hit the Western Hwy to Adelaide a distance of 743 km. For you N-Irelanders that is Belfast to Cork and 1/3 the way back again. We would be doing that sort of distance every day for the next week.
The photo is of a very Big Koala outside Horsham. Australia abounds with big things and I will be posting them as we go. Alan and I almost lost each other when I stopped to take this photo. He didn't hear my horn as he was plugged into his iPod and wouldn't hear if a truck was going to run him over. We hadn't yet figured out how to use the UHF radios we had brought so it was just by good luck we met up in a petrol station down the road.
We rode on into South Australia (SA) and the temperature started to rise to 35 degrees C and stayed there until we reached Adelaide. We hit the evening rush hour there and sweated our way through heavy traffic until we reached Gerry Hood's house near the beach. Mabel (Alan's GPS) couldn't find the house number because it was too new.
We eventually found her and had a good night especially the Lasagne.So far no problems except for Mabel!
G'day Big Al & Snipe,
ReplyDeleteHope all is going well so far with your adventure! We meant to call the night before you left dad, but we were at the hospital class quite late. Rob and Damian enjoyed your Waratahs seats last night and Rob says you are beating him in the tips this week, even though you didn't put yours in!
Good luck with everything, look forward to seeing more photos and updates.
Love Sam & Rob