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 …
Tag: Australia Ride
Aug 26 2019
Quickie Update: August 27– Kilkivan
Aug 23 2019
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, …
Aug 18 2019
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 …
Aug 17 2019
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 …