Hooroo Uluru
// December 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog
Rest day number 2 started with an early morning, we were up by 5:30am and had left for Uluru by 6:00. Yesterday, following the presentations at the cultural centre, we had discussed the issues around climbing the rock and students had made individual decisions as to whether to climb or not. As it turned out, [...]
The mighty rock
// December 1st, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blog
It’s difficult to believe how much we managed to fit in to today. Four riders were enough to complete our scheduled leg into Erldunda, and thanks to high average speeds we arrived very early, at around 10am. We even had time to stop off for a camel ride along the way, at Camels Australia, which [...]
A relaxing day in the Alice
// November 30th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blog
Our rest day is at an end, and it has to said that our principal activity today has been basking in the generosity and interest of other people.
With no need to be on the road at daybreak, most of us instead got up with the sun. The exceptions were Nick and Leigh, who were up [...]
Alice in wonderland
// November 29th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog
This is almost getting too easy. Today was another very smooth day; continuing our new system of longer rides, we completed the 380km with only 4 riders. Clancy and Ryan completed their first 100km rides for the trip, Alistair rode 71km and Lucas completed about 110km in 2 separate stints, tackling a long morning ride [...]
Someone’s lost his marbles, and for once it’s not Mark.
// November 29th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog
Since our last update we’ve been living it up at Wycliffe Well Caravan Park. Tempting though it was to bask in the air-conditioning with ice-creams, we ate dinner early and took off to the Devil’s Marbles. The rock formations are amazing; rounded red boulders balanced on top of each-other as though someone has been sorting [...]
E(b)T Phone Home
// November 28th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blog
The Rode Rage team has landed in Wycliffe Well, the UFO centre of Australia, after a supernaturally successful day on the road. The walls at Wycliffe Well Big 4 are plastered with news stories and posters about the UFO sightings that the area has been famous for since before World War II. So far our [...]
If only our batteries were as tough as our riders… (A very successful day none the less)
// November 27th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Blog
It seems that although our training, ventilation, ice-vests, hydration regime and general gutsiness has proved more than sufficient to allow our riders to cope with the heat, our batteries are not as strong-willed. The techies worked with amazing efficiency last night to isolate the electrical fault that caused our problems yesterday, still managing to [...]
Feeling hot hot hot…
// November 26th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Blog
It’s bedtime for Rode-Ragers after our first day of riding, which proved to be quite eventful. Taking off at 5:30am, with Ryan as our first rider, the pace was set early on. Following Ryan, there were three blisteringly fast rides from three of our girl riders, Lacey, Rory and Chloe. Lucas took over for the [...]
You can’t rain on our parade
// November 26th, 2009 // 10 Comments » // Blog
The alarms rang at oooooh-300 hours, and we were out of bed, showered and bedrolls packed away by 3:15am. Some of us had even begun taking down our tents. At this point, a few drops of rain were felt, which quickly turned into a LOT of drops of rain. We huddled under the marquee for [...]
Day 3
// November 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog
Wednesday November 25
Another early start this morning, we were out of bed by 6am, enjoyed pancakes for breakfast and took ADIMOV Dreaming in the centre of town by bus at 8:15. We were greeted at Darwin Council Chambers by the Mayor of Darwin, Graeme Sawyer . Morgan did an interview with the local ABC Radio [...]
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