Vanderpants Oz Tour

Km’s – 70 on the nose

vert – 100 mtrs

avg spd – 17 kmph

total distance – 312 km’s

saddle time- 4 hours

Before I start I wanted to share the video of the ‘day in the life of the Redlegs’ from yesterday that I couldn’t upload. I must say, for an amateur I LOVE IT – I may have watched it a few times hahaha – THIS WAS YESTERDAYS FUN TODAY – bit different than today haha

Hi readers for the red headed pedal pushers

First off I wanted to take some time to mention my best friends Aunty, Janette. She passed away at this location whilst riding her Harley and tragically died by the hands of an emu running out in front of her bike. My thoughts are with Jeano, Malcolm, Gherna and her whole family. I knew her well also and Alex and I paid our respects as I retold the story about what I know of her and how it happened and we were quiet again, for a while and just talked about it for a while and also followed on from yesterdays attempted murder we shook our heads and started talking about life again, as you do on the road and how lucky we are. My thoughts are with everyone who knew her and her family – you know who you all are I don’t need to name names on this blog.

Today was the first wild camp for alex and also for our tour and i would say it was successfull Apart from Alex bitching that i snored at 4am and he couldnt get to sleep. Cry me a river bitch 😂

But all in all it was an awesome, quiet, secluded spot with no bugs – AGAIN – Alex gets the highlights of touring so far everyday – how lucky are we haha

I’ve noticed a lot of dead Deers on the road and last time I did the coorong a few years ago, I didn’t notice any – just kangas and there’s a few of those but seeing all the Deers was a bit of an eye opener considering I didnt see any last time.

Back to this morning, Alex was already organising his stuff so i though i might as well get up (6:20am) we slowly packed up our stuff as i yelled out a few tips and tricks which he took in his stride – this man is learning super fast and we are very quickly sharing the load of what touring is made of. its nice. I received a phone call at 7 about my sister who I look after and the food cupboard wouldn’t open – BIG DRAMA – so after sorting that out lolz it was pack up time.

We packed up, headed off for more head winds and decided on a 70km day today. Then we can do a few things we need to do to the bikes and some shopping etc. Today was a bit of a blerg day where there is absolutely nothing but road and shrub so pictures and vids were scarce. At one point i did clip my loud speaker to the back of my pants, crank Disturbed and Alex was happy to show me exactly why this song is difficult on drums or where the beat sits in the song. I like that because music is Life right???

Lunch stop was off a dirt road, coffee boiling and a dehydrated meal inside a roll OMG yummmmmmmy.

It has rained on us every day so far but it hasnt poured down which works for me. The headwinds were relentless actually but not as bad as last time I was here but still, easy to get frustrated because it felt like 120km day uphill lol. I could see a SMALLLLLLL crack in Alex and I knew he was in his ‘head space’ dealing with the the mental battle of ‘headwind city’ so on goes out headphones and I kicked into gear and trundled away slightly so we can just go heads down bum up for an hour or so. I slowed down 10km’s before town so we can take it in, reset the mind and head into town together and talk about how effed this is hahahaha

As today was rainy and humdrum, im pumped to upload this video from last night. It’s a day in the life of yesterday on the road. Alex told me today he was amazed at the range of emotions that occur whilst touring and how many there are on any given day so far. You can start out thinking the day is AMAZING and half way through the day you speak to people, go through rain, hills, hot weather, a flat tyre, murders, deaths, hunger and much more but not only that, sometimes, the fear of ‘Can I actually do this because i’m in pain right now – how bout the rest of the trip’. These things are so good to push through because when you get ‘there’ you’ve learned so much and you don’t even know it.

Whilst I was riding along today I thought ‘im going to miss you guys (wink) when i’m more remote as in up top of Australia. I feel like my network coverage will be scarce and I won’t be able to blog as much and that means I will miss you. I think part of my blog is for me but it’s also so you guys can live through me or should I say know what I’m up to and that’s somehow like having a friend along the way. I love that you guys can go through this with us (and me). It’s kind of comforting. We also saw an old couple on their bikes doing it like us but the other way – was nice to see a couple in their 60’s who have been together over 40 years AND doing it together, roughing it, loving it and with a smile on their face – BRILLIANT………Our setups were HEEEEAPS better though – JUST SAYING hahahahaha

Ok enough fuzzy warm stuff…….We soldiered on today and got to Kingston happy smiles and lined up where we will eat dinner tonight, already discussed logistics along the way, knew where coffee was and headed to our accomm.

Here comes the interesting bit…..We have a joint pile of joint washing and I took it all in the shower and what do Bro’s do, they wash the STENCH out of their mates garments don’t they, then they palm off the second rinse to the other mate who without a word finished off the final touches in the sink and hangs it up – what a partership huh hahaha

Above is what days of no showering and cycling looks like AFTER a first rinse already hahahaha – now you are really getting to know us 🙂

So we are off to tea and stay tuned for WHATEVER comes our way tomorrow Peeps.

Here’s a small vid of today

Red Signing out…………………………………