Butt Lite IX and beyond
We've arrived! After a 14.5 hour flight that apparently only took 15 minutes (we took off at 12.35pm on Thursday from Sydney and arrived at 12.50pm on Thursday in Dallas) we changed planes, had to repack our bags, and made it to sunny Minnesota around 7.30pm. After a delicious dinner catching up with our American…
T minus 50 minutes! We've waved farewell to the fur child and had brekkie with my parents and we're on our way. We're about to board QF7 to Dallas and I thought I'd share one more post before we depart. While we were in Mansfield a few months ago, Kiwi and I shared some of…
It's less than 2 days now until we board our flight to Dallas and it's been a busy week and a half. As some of you will know by now, we'll be riding a new and different bike on the IBR than we thought! Towards the end of BLIX last year, there was a funny…
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…
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.…
[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…
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…
