July 22nd, 2008 by Kevin Withnall

Well, this morning, I got up at about 6am and then had to watch silly tv until 9am to be able to go to the QANTAS museum.

Lets just say firstly that its fantastic.
I’ve been to a few museums in my time and this one is done really well. Theres lots of models, replicas and original [...]

July 22nd, 2008 by Kevin Withnall

I wanted to get some shoes at mt isa but the shops were not open until about 9am and I needed to get a move on. So, at about 7:30 I left the expensive crappy room I had and hit the road. As it was early, I wanted to follow some other cars out to [...]

July 20th, 2008 by Kevin Withnall

This morning, I rode the 189km to mt isa and went to the information centre.
There, I purchased a ticket for the Riversleigh Fossil exhibit and the Outback Experience and Mine Tour.
Firstly the outback experience, its a small museum with some videos and rock samples. Quite interesting watching the videos but they don’t sell the DVD [...]

July 20th, 2008 by Kevin Withnall

This morning I left Alice at about 8:30 ready for a 500km ish ride. I wasn’t looking forward to a longish ride after quite a few days off but I didn’t really have an option. The ride passed pretty smoothly. Crossing the tropic of capricorn shortly after leaving alice it was all going quite quickly [...]

July 18th, 2008 by Kevin Withnall

Well, today, being my last day in Alice Springs, I was fortunate enough to get to a dentist. I called at opening time and begged. I was told they would squeeze me in at 1pm so, at 1pm, I was on their door step.
I had to fill in forms, use HICAPS, pay the gap, get [...]