Tag: Australia Ride

Quickie Update: Aug. 27– Woolooga

Quickie Update What? How can this be? I simply wanted a quiet comfortable place to rest for a couple of days, and the only criteria was that it had good wifi so I can do some writing. US$28 a night for a single twin bed seemed acceptable so I booked for 2 nights. It was …

Continue reading

Quickie Update: August 27– Kilkivan

Quickie Update August 27: Just pausing in Kilkivan for breakfast after a 23 mile ride today. Camped by side of road last night and left 7:30 this morning. Will keep going after I finish. Was in Gayndah yesterday (Will write a full post on it later) . Heading to Woolooga today .

Quickie Update: August 23– Eidsvold

Quickie Update Dear friends: I’ve been throwing quickie updates on Facebook and Instagram for folks, simply because that medium takes less thought and very easy to do with minimal bandwidth. A weak cell signal is all that’s needed to post. A good blog post, on the other hand, takes more time and more bandwidth. Still, …

Continue reading

Coal and a Bike Fix

On my way to Dysart, the hex screw holding up the rear rack broke. This is a disastrous break, for all the weight of the load on the back rests on the rack, which ultimately rests on two hex screws– and one of them broke. I cobbled together a temporary solution with duct tape and …

Continue reading

Tired, Shocked, or Numb?

I am sitting alone here in the Apollo Hotel in Biloela, trying to figure out what to write. It’s not that I don’t have anything to write about; in fact I have too much, since I haven’t posted in a while. There’s a collection of thoughts just sitting in my “draft posts” bin. But I …

Continue reading