Vanderpants Oz Tour

Km’s – 70

Total K’s – 485

Elevation – 236mtrs

Saddle Time 4.5 hrs

Avg Spd – 15kmph

Howdy all. well another successful day today. Up before the sun rises, teamwork got the brekky and coffee sorted, packed our bags and away we went in record time. On the road we were and the sunrise was awesome to watch. Today was always going to be looking forward to the end of the day because WE KNEW what the end of the day may hold if we decided on it. We werent sure whether we would push on to Mt Gambier during the day or not however, our sense of humour took over……a remake of ‘The Hall’ and ‘The Piano’ hahahaha from my last attempt at around Australia HAD TO BE DONE (watch vid to be amazed i mean shocked hahaha

Along the way we met Michael who is riding from Adelaide to Brisbane for a charity and it was lovely to see them throughout the day and have a good yarn about things. Good luck guys and I hope to stay in touch over Insta as I continue my journey.

Half way during the day alex and I lol’d because we were smack bacng in the middle of the road comparing photos and going ‘Hang On….we should get off the road’ hahahaha getting used to the ears to hear traffic happens quick lol – but definitely stay off the middle of the road people hahh

It was only 70km’s today but again – those headwinds….phewph – I think that (total guess here) that 70 km’s on a loaded touring bike in the headwinds feels like 120 on a light road bike – it aint easy lugging that thing into the wind but – use minimal energy, low gears and just push away and the k’s and laughs just roll over.

One thing we discussed today was how nice it is to unpack EVERYTHING on the bike. To have the chance to discuss everything from the experiences we encounter to everything else in life and it always ends in sarcasm of course – sooo lucky to be doing this and unwind whilst doing something hard that rewards you in SOOOOO many ways. Alex said ‘I don’t know how to adjust when I get home’ hahahaha yup – it’s THAT GOOD OUT HERE

Millicent was the lunch stop after 40 clicks of talking shit and meeting lovely people – we had a couple bike issues – flatty and some adjustments so decided to eat where the flatty occurred and god it’s lovely to basically eat our way through towns. It’s what I live for – that descend into an Australian town wondering what’s in it, who’s there, what’s to see but more importantly follow my (small) nose to wherever the bakery leads us and smash EVERYTHING then move on like some kind of pair of locusts 🙂

So lunch stop occured and we had another quick chat with the legend called Michael and off he went zooming by and us left in his dirt all jealous like 🙂

We then decided that it was time……..time to head to THE HALL. I remember visiting here when I attempted to ride around Australia before Covid took that away from me (not burnt AT ALL) and being so drained from double the headwind and sore hamstrings and just went – STUFF IT IM GOING IN……I was then dared to play the piano in a non savoury way so of course i did hahaha and today was an opportunity to make THE SEQUEL -you’ll see 🙂

I must say I do have a chuckle with alex about 10 times daily about how many people think my drone footage is awesome and alex’s pics or whatever he puts into the videos are just soooooooo SHIT and not comment worthy hahahahahahaha – I am laughing now just thinking about it – even my bike gets comments and his NONE 🙂 bwahahahahahaha

Body Updates:

Adrian: a niggle behind his knee he is worried about – other than that and a sore ass (takes another week or so) i’m good. Other than general fitness soreness……i’m gooooood

Alex: Just his ass – nothing big at all – body feels like a million bucks he says – how freekn good is that – what a legend

The drone came out a few times today which you’ll see and I feel so much more confident with it including the editing and putting it all together. Would like to learn a few more tricks making videos but that’ll come

Shout out to everyone who is commenting on my blog – I READ THEM ALL – I just don’t reply because by the time I do, you’d have to go back to my old blog post and read them through which noone does LOL

Tomorrow should be another 70km day ish and we have also planned out a rough km per day to keep us in check when we feel edgy to go or behind – knowing overall what we need to each day including rests days allows us to relax and enjoy and be flexible but have plan a’s and b’s – that’s how I work and so does Alex so this Redlegs Team are kicking ass at the moment

Dinner was no exception to this – I must we didn’t rough it with dinner tonight – on the menu was

Pasta with mushroom, onion, broccolini, pesto with an egg to boot and the salad on the menu tonight was spinach, pear, balsamic glaze with crushed nuts on the top mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

See you all tomorrow peeps – enjoy the vid