by timshazz | Feb 6, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
With mended legs from our day off in Warragul, a tailwind and a huge shoulder on the highway, the 56km ride to Traralgon couldn’t have been more different to the one to Warragul just two days before. There were a couple of hills to get out of town but then it was flat...
by timshazz | Jan 17, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
Viewpoint at 13th Beach – Victoria With the Great Ocean Road behind us we were on the next major leg of our cycling tour across Australia to the Pacific Coast. After taking the coastal road track from Torquay via the very beautiful 13th Beach, we arrived in a...
by timshazz | Jan 14, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
Views early morning on the Great Ocean Road After our big climb up Lavers Hill, a rest day in Apollo Bay was exactly what we needed, (the copious beverages were probably not) so the 6am wake-up call wasn’t all that welcome, but we wanted to miss the bulk of the...
by timshazz | Jan 13, 2014 | Cycling Across Australia
Ahhh, yes…the wonderful post-Xmas and New Year’s bulge. After almost 3 weeks off the bikes, getting stuck right into all the goodies of the festive season, we were feeling decidedly heavier, and cycling across Australia seemed like another world away. We finally...
by timshazz | Dec 30, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
Heading into the Xmas period the pressure to be places and fit in with other people’s schedules started to mount. We’d made a promise to be home in Broken Hill for Xmas but really had no idea where we would be when the time came to abandon the bikes and find a way...
by timshazz | Dec 21, 2013 | Cycling Across Australia
What a difference a day makes. After an enforced rest day in Robe because of crazy high winds (in the wrong direction), we awoke to a gorgeous sunny day with fairly mild winds and perfect mid twenty temperatures. We had a fairly short cycling day planned to Beachport...
