Our day off today, well after the official ride through Alice’s Todd Mall anyway. What a great nights sleep, but I think I’m just used to waking early that I can’t sleep past 6:15am grrrr. Had been teed up to meet with Phil, Kimmo, Noel & Audrey for breaky down at the Tavern. My first real …
Category: Motorcycling
Aug 24
BDR Day 6 Coober Pedy-Alice Springs
It’s surprising how good I slept last night in our bat cave (3×3 room carved into rock) to wake to only a few bikes this morning as CH9 were doing broadcasts from where we were staying. Martin the manager has got fire pits going all over the grounds for us as it’s a bit brrrrrr. Hundreds …
Aug 22
BDR Day 5 Port Augusta-Coober Pedy
Well shit happens, wrote this great blog and accidentally hit the delete key before it saved, AAARRRGGGHHHHHHH I did take pics today but the loader still is having problems, so they’ll have to wait. What a great sleep but was woken at 5:00am by the rumble of eager engines wanting to get their mugs on …
Aug 22
BDR Day 4 Broken Hill-Port Augusta
Dark o’clock, even earlier than a sparrows fart is what CH9 asked for so we can be on the Today Show with Steve Jacobs (my new friend). Anny & I had some confusion with the whole time difference, anyway set the alarm waaaaaay to early needless to say we were the first on site at the Pig & …
Aug 21
BDR Day 3 Nyngan-Broken Hill
Sorry for missing yesterday but we had time constraints. Nyngan, how damn cold does it get, well I’ll give you the guff, man it was -2 deg (and people live there….). I shared a cabin with another lady and took pity on this poor bloke (Steve, one of many Steve’s) who was camping but we …
Aug 19
BDR Day 2 Tamworth-Nyngan
I woke this morning at 5:36 to the sound of birds tweeting and the bloke in the tent behind my cabin snoring…LOL It was a hard morning for me. I’d packed up and was ready to go and wham, the flood gates of emotions took hold. The memory of my best friend on the 1 …
Aug 18
BDR Day 1 Sydney-Tamworth
You couldn’t have asked for a better morning, the sun out, the skies clear and all is good. A deep breathe and I roll out the drive for our meet point in Castle Hill. The street is blocked off and so many bikes already there when I arrive. I saw sense and parked close to …
Aug 17
1 more sleep
The emotions are a pot just burbling away at the moment, just waiting to escape. I know they will catch up with me & boil over it’s just a matter of when. I’m already to go & have received today & tonight so many well wishes that I am truly greatfull for. Thank you again …
Aug 13
5 days to go
…….and I’m off for 14 days on an adventure I’ll never forget. But the ride isn’t about me, it’s about raising awareness and FUNDS for the Black Dog Institute. The funds go towards educational programmes, community initiatives, health seminars and outreach programs for rural communities and they are very much needed. To everyone that …
Aug 07
11 days to go……..
……and I head out of Sydney with a hoard of others bound for Alice Springs for the Black Dog Institute, raising awareness for Depression and mental illness and hopefully much needed funds. THANK YOU to all that have donated so far. With your generous support I have now increased my limit to $5000 and am now …