Day 39 – Home and stats
Last nights blog was a bit slow to generate on the phone so here is a wrap of yesterdays activities and some stats about our trip. You know me I have to generate some stats about what we did. We … Continue reading →
Category Archives: 2014 MTB Trip
Day 38 – Ikea, DFO, Spirit 1
The heading says it all. Hard to blog on my phone tonight. Update tomorrow with the pictures of the camper chock a block full of shopping. Our trip is over and as long as the boat does not sink tonight … Continue reading →
Day 37 – Buxton
After a pleasant night at Marysville we woke to some some drizzle in the morning and the temperature had dropped a bit. Looking at the satellite pictures it was going to clear to a nice day so we did not … Continue reading →
Day 36 – Buller to Marysville via Buxton
Today was our last morning at Buller and as you would expect it was a hustle and bustle of packing as a lot of people had to leave on the bus to get to Melbourne Airport for connecting flights. Quite … Continue reading →
Day 35 – Buller Day 4
Today was the big Craigs Hut ride. There was a lot of hype about how tough this ride was but in the end even Sharons group completed it ok with quite a bit of effort and a lot of pushing. … Continue reading →
Day 34 – Buller Day 3
We woke to -3 degrees, snow on the ground and it still snowing today. As planned we decided to move off the mountain but we met an unexpected snag when two of the vehicles including our own would not run … Continue reading →
Day 33 – Buller Day 2
Today was Delatite day (name of the track) where we would ride from the top of the mountain to the bottom at Mirambah a small shop run by the Mt Buller people. From Mirambah we were shuttled back up in … Continue reading →
Day 32 – Buller day 1
The instructors split us into two groups before we started and it was self seeding as to what group you went into. The really tentative group and the medium / faster group. As with all these things the faster people … Continue reading →
Day 31 – Buller
Our idyllic campsite had a rude awakening at 5AM this morning when the local logging contractor started cutting down and stripping pines in the dark. Latter we were woken by the log trucks turning up to be loaded and the … Continue reading →
Day 30 – Yackandandah to Blue Range
Today we did the short drive from Beechworth to Yackandandah to call in on an old family friend. Bill was unfortunate to get polio as a child and had calipers and crutches for all of his life. Bills problems did … Continue reading →