Sharon and I participated in the 2013 Sally's ride doing the 45km ride option this year on our mountain bikes. Sally's ride was donating all monies raised this year to CORES Australia (Community Response to Eliminating Suicide) – www.cores.org.au. There was a nice … Continue reading →
What a way to treat my new Rocky on it’s first ride. Got an invite to tag along with Maurice’s riding group to do the Ben Lomond ascent followed by the decent (1,100M climb ahhhh)! Dan pulled out Friday night … Continue reading →
Three of us had the job to go out and clean up all the markers put out for the SES SAREX exercise back in August that I missed due to our big trip away. The SAREX was dogged by heavy … Continue reading →
Dust it off, oil the chain, bolt on some clip in pedals and buy a fluid trainer – bingo some extra training for the Bluedragon. Just needs a laptop stand and book holder on the handle bars and it will … Continue reading →
Sharon and Emily had a skills session with MTBSkills in Hobart at Tolosa Mountain Bike Park. Sharon had been trying to get on the course for ages but cancellations and wrong days etc etc had thwarted all attempts lately. Finally … Continue reading →
We headed down to near Camena camping on Shanes bush block for the long weekend. On the Saturday we spent a few hours bombing around the awesome Penguin Mountain Bike Park, well I thought it was awesome anyway. We were … Continue reading →
Sharon is slowly getting back up to speed on the mountain bike in preparation for the Blue Dragon two day event in the Blue Tier / Derby area in March. You may be wondering what a QOM is, “Queen Of … Continue reading →
Vehicle / Travel Stats: Traveled (by boat) 883KM Traveled (by plane) 279KM Traveled (in our truck) 20,517KM Diesel used 2,404L Average price per litre $1.802 Lowest price per litre $1.509 Highest paid price per litre $2.489 Highest seen price per litre $2.89 Average fuel consumption … Continue reading →
Here is where we have been in the last 3 months. It does not include any of our walking only driving, sailing and flying legs. Each bubble is a campsite location from our Spot messages each night. The trip plot … Continue reading →
Last day on the big island. We packed up the camper for the last time this morning. We headed off to the Melbourne Zoo for the best part of the day after following “Lee’s” instructions and missing the last lane … Continue reading →