Riding in the rain 100 metres at a time – Day 2 (Monday 20 April)
Elizabeth Last night I feared I maybe really couldn’t do this. Well, couldn’t do the wild camping – that particularly worried me. But here I am. Not wild camping as in…
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Weeping for What Will Come and What Will Stay Behind
The tick-tock of time passing is getting very loud. Today is my Going Away Party. As I write I await the first of my guests. I feel anxious, nervous, excited…
Naked Liberation at No 42 Lady Bay Beach – 22 February 2015
Until recently I was dreading Lady Bay. It is the second of, I think, three ‘clothing optional’ beaches in Sydney (this one granted that status in 1976). The first in…
You May Have Your Mansion But the Beach is There for All – No 41, Kutti (1 February 2015)
Kutti Beach is in Vaucluse, long the most affluent of Sydney suburbs and still in the top five. Prior to European colonisation the area was home to the Birrabirragal clan…
A Timely Reminder from Unclipped
I’ve been following Tegan Philips’ adventure on Unclipped since the begin … such a great and simple blog. Today, this reminder – I’ve been feeling a little stressed about my…
It Suddenly Seems Very Soon
Taking into account my Australian ride it’s like three months and a week or so to go. Shit. Okay. I need to settle on a starting point: Sydney or Melbourne.…
Flight Changes are Giving Me Grief
Qatar Airways has changed my flights leaving me with the option of either taking a later flight from Sydney to Hong Kong on Cathay keeping short layovers there and in…
A Riot of Kookaburras and Cerulean Seas – No 40 Jibbon (4 January 2015)
The strange summer continues as I’ve had to skip another (and hopefully the last) of the Hawkesbury beaches which can only be reached from the water. I will visit number…
My Traveller’s Year Continues
As I wrote about my journey to Jibbon Beach: I feel like I’ve opened myself to a traveller’s life and a traveller’s experiences even while still in Sydney. … I’m…
Let My Traveller’s Year Begin
I feel like I’ve mentally turned toward the trip and that it is now front and centre in my mind. This morning I was catching up on some emails and…