Hawaii – Volcanoes … Blown away

Sorry, that was a bad pun. As soon as we found out that we were going to Hawaii the one thing we really wanted to do was a helicopter flight over the volcano.  After all,  how often do you get to see volcanoes. We ended up flying with Paradise Helicopters as they were the only…

Hawaii – not quite what I expected

We are lucky enough to be in Hawaii through Stampin’ Up after all the hard work Deb has put in over the last year.   I’m the lucky plus one to accompany her. However, flying into Hawaii yesterday was a bit of an anti-climax.   We had been on the  plane for 9 hours,  it was 3:30am…

Weekend ride in the mountains

There’s something empowering about riding alone.  Setting you’re own schedule, changing plans on the fly, not having to come to consensus on decisions, and overcoming obsticles as they arise.  Don’t get me wrong, hanging out in a group is good but you have a lot of different issues to contend with. Maybe its the introvert…

That Man

30 years ago I met a man that quite frankly scared me. This man was uncompromising, intimidating and had a wild multi-coloured bush-ranger beard which I am sure kept all potential suitors very nervous.  This man worked extremely hard to keep food on the table and support his family, often having to work away from home.  However, even…

Broken Hill – day 10

Coober Pedy welcomed me with another great start to the day and another great sunrise. Today is more heading south and with that I am joined by my riding buddy.  Together we ride across South Australia. Past the wide open pasture lands and past the various lakes that I will need to look up the…

Coober Pedy – day 9

I woke up early this morning to cars and bikes leaving.  I lay there contemplating all the traffic so early and then it hit me.   Sunrise viewing.! I lay there some more.  More cars leave. It’s only sunrise after all and I did see the sunset over the rock last night.  I do need to…

Uluru – day 8

Today I made a second attempt to get out to Uluru. Given the distances between anything are quite large the interesting thing I have noticed in the Northern Territory is that the milage posts can often refer to the highway intersection. Like today when leaving Kings Canyon the posts would be LH150 meaning Lassitets Highway.…

Glen Helen – Day 5

With the last real coffee a distant memory.  Today started with a nice coffee. From here Russell and I set off for the three ways (corner of the Barkley and Stuart Highways).  I was wondering what Russell was up to at one point but it turned out the he was trying to go 150km with…