Last weekend was our last ride together before we take off for the US of A. We'd planned a while ago to meet up with friends for lunch in Temora and now it was pony up time. We agreed to leave by 7am and I can only say that I started the day tired. Getting…
Month: May 2019
Big Things Leg 3
So with Leg 2 scoring done, and some good lessons learnt, we said farewell to Ox and Simon and got back on the road. Technically we had 14 hours to finish our ride (10am to midnight) but with the aim to be back in Sydney by 4 that cut riding time down to 6 hours.…
Big Things: Leg 2
[WARNING: v long blog post ahead] Ox handed out some additional bonus info at checkpoint 1. For leg 2, and only leg 2, some additional bonuses would be available. These were the 'planets' on the various 'Solar System Drives' in central western NSW: https://www.solarsystemdrive.com/images/brochure.pdf Roughly speaking, the drives centre around the Siding Springs Observatory (the…
NSW Big Things Rally
This past weekend we were very spoilt with Ox organising a practice rally for us. As usual we had a busy work week leading into it, but for a change it was a good thing as it meant we were operating under a bit of pressure before we started and had an opportunity to really…
The Adventures of Pillion Piglet 