Or more accurately, the Indian Pacific Wheel Ride - IPWR 2022. File this one under 'stark raving mad'.For anyone who has never heard of it, Indipac (Indian - Pacific) was once a trans-Australian 'race'. Now it's a 'ride'. A Challenge (capital C). An Adventure. It's a ride across Australia on a set route, from Perth …
Day by day progress
Will be adding each day's ride (in a different colour) to this as we go. Well, whenever we have internet, and the energy!
Indipac links
Satellite tracking site MAProgress:We're 'TwoUp'https://indianpacificwheelride2022.maprogress.com/ Our FB page https://www.facebook.com/twouptandem The Indipac Dot Watchers FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/IPWR.DW
Yamba return to Sandy
As per yesterday, an early start was needed, and we managed to be nearly half an hour earlier. We left open the option - if we struggled - of staying the night in Grafton, but the goal was to get home. I'd plotted an optimistic, longer, way round to Maclean (for a change of scenery), …
Sandy Beach to Yamba
Border closures and lockdowns this year really put the kybosh on a couple of tour ideas (north to Qld and back, and then even just Northern NSW). So here we are just into December with just a couple of days to spare and some new gear to test-drive... or rather test-ride. And we wanted to …
Day 8 – Urunga to Sandy Beach. Home.
57 km +517m The advertised 'breakfast included' (on website, and on signs upstairs in the pub) was nowhere to be seen, so it was a cafe breakfast, and raised eyebrows at what you got for the $90 a night tariff.Not a soul to be seen as we reversed the tandem-carry out and down the back …
Day 7 – Nambucca to Urunga
24k + 230m Shortest tour day ever. What the heck, we're on holidays. So the accommodation last night was pretty nice. It was more or less a B&B that I'd found on booking.com, at the back of a house, and overlooking the bush. It was well-provisioned with coffee, tea, and breakfast cereal (including a generous …
Day 6 – Hat Head to Nambucca
80 km + 370m (or +551 according to his GPS - felt more like that of course!) 1 magpie swoop (on the Hat Head side of Gladstone - totally unexpected as it didn't swoop us the other day, what's with that?!) We got away just after 8am, which was an improvement on other days! A …
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