July 31st, 2008 by Kevin Withnall
Apologies to tolkein for the title but it seemed appropriate.
Some things about the trip I wanted to write so here goes.
In total it was 10756k long. My shadow, travelled about 2m further than me as I started in the morning, ended in the afternoon. I was riding for about 133 hours, averaging about 80kph
Highlights from [...]
July 31st, 2008 by Kevin Withnall
Leaving Nambucca Heads at about 7:30 in the morning, after a cold night where the bike was soaked in dew, was not pleasant. The bike was reporting 4 degrees, and it felt colder. I had the down jacket on under the bike jacket and the heaters on full and was still freezing. It didn’t take [...]
July 31st, 2008 by Kevin Withnall
I was up and ready to go about 7am. My brother told me he goes at about 7:30 in the morning and I thought it would be good timing to get out at the same time. I had parked in the garage and had the bike packed and was using the computer checking out email [...]
July 31st, 2008 by Kevin Withnall
I’ve already done this and the next day but wordpress ate them.
I got up early but stayed in the room as it was really cold. My breakfast was delivered (pre ordered the night before) and I packed up and was ready to go about 8:30am.
The Rum tour wasn’t starting till 10am (I had to be [...]
July 29th, 2008 by Kevin Withnall
With all this news, they don’t seem to show you what they look like. I took this photo last week from the first cargo bay in a 747-200. There are 2 tanks here.
Just thought people might like to see them.
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