You can’t rain on our parade
// November 26th, 2009 // 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 a damp but convivial breakfast, and put our motto (adapt, improvise and overcome) into action… We carried our tents to the laundry where we could shake them out and pack them away under cover, lunches were made and packed under the marquee, we loaded up the trailer, had about 800 trips to the toilet (just in case) and drove out the gate at exactly 5:30am, right on schedule.
Our spirits have not been dampened by our early morning challenges, and with the sun just coming up Ryan is buckling into his 4-point safety harness and checking his radio, ready to make the most of the cool conditions.
GG
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Congratulations on the start of the road trip. Looks good on website. Safe driving. Hopefully those in the support vehicles (except driver!) can catch some sleep after such an early start.
Hi Guys.
All going well so far? Fantastic! Its chuckin it down in Ballarat also. Hope its eased off for you. Checking in and live feed is great. Go Joshy!!!
Karyn
Looks fantastic on the live streaming guys. The photos and blog are great as well. Best of luck for all the riders, techies, support crew and staff. Have a safe days riding. We’ll be following your progress.
Website streaming is cool!
All the best to the team for the journey.
Off to a great start. Looks great on the live feed. I’m hooked!!
Greetings to all – hope you are all managing the conditions OK. You look to be going at a good rate – must be coming up for a a break soon if you have been going since 5.30am. Travel safely. Don’t get a speeding ticket! Ouch to the road train just gone past you!!!
3am…. you can have that, i got up at 1pm haha.
But sounds like your doing a great job, im angry at my computer, it doesn’t like me and wont let me watch the live footage
much love
Sensational! I can see the end of the first day is not too far away on the GPS tracker. Enjoy the springs of Mataranka – you’ll have deserved them. Looking forward to the Awards Night cross – fingers crossed.
Hi there Daniel we’re watching you all the way from Christchurch New Zealand. The machine looks pretty smooth. Hope you can cope with all the early starts……Haven’t caught the live streaming yet …xx
Live cross to the Awards Night worked fab!
Thanks Aaron for your help with getting the tech side of this together at your end.
Have a nice evening as a team relaxing after a big day.