Ride for Water II Journal

Day 1 – Torquay to Lorne 40 Km – 25 Miles

We got our start out of Torquay around 11:00 AM. The morning was spent returning the rental van to Geelong, organizing the packing of our bikes and taking any excess items we didn’t want to carry to the Post Office for shipping to Darwin. The...

Time in Melbourne

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In the Land Down Under, June 22

As I excused myself and took my seat on one of the middle seats of the A330 in Sidney, the gentleman next to me asked, “Was that an American accent I detected?” Our flight had gotten out of Indy on-time with black clouds forming to...

This and that…last minute details.

By this time next week we should be in Torquay along Australia’s southern coast just south of Melbourne. Our bikes have been boxed and my panniers are nearly ready with just a few things yet to pack. I made a round trip to pick up...

One Week Out

  We arrive in Melbourne 9:40 AM on Wednesday June 22. David has reserved our first night’s accommodations in Torquay, a coastal village south of Melbourne, one of Australia’s premier surfing locales. Torquay is at the Eastern end of the Great Ocean Road on which we...

Come Riding?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “I have never entirely understood why, when people urge you to see their ‘real’ country, they send you to the empty parts where almost no sane person would choose to live, but there you are. You cannot say you have been to Australia until you...