Day 1

Anna got away as planned at about 9.00am. Spike and I left about an hour later. We headed to a battery replacement joint in beautiful Bankstown, run by a chap named Moe, who might have been Syrian. The Century Battery shop was in a typical suburban shopping centre but with especially tight turns, making negotiation … Read more

Last Hours

We are ready to go, and probably would have left by now but for the fact that we are waiting on new brakes to be added to the bike and for the truck, an additional spare tyre and two new batteries. All of this “will be ready Monday”. So we wait. It’s a bit like … Read more

The Beginning

A couple of days ago Anna came up with the “mad” idea of riding a bike around Australia. I immediately agreed and offered to drive the support vehicle. This notion has fired us up and for now, we are both extremely enthusiastic whilst recognising that there are a thousand reasons why it might not happen. … Read more