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Sydney to Darwin 2001
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| Journal for 20-Jun-2001 : Sydney |
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| Date: 20/06/2001 (Location=Sydney, Dist=0km, Total=0km) Three days to go, and the pile of things accumulating in our lounge room of things that need to be loaded onto our bikes. We are starting to get longer range weather forcasts suggesting fine, dry but cool south westerly winds for the first day. Still on the preparation list is: Book the flights home Get a new tent (with working zippas and Mozzie protection), Clean the Bike Clean the bikes - again. (Fat Chance) New bike chains and clusters. ORDERED - Bikes at the Bike Shop being serviced as we speak. New tyres. ORDERED Put the new tyres on the bikes. New saddle (mine has a crack - no John Hoppoati jokes please) ORDERED Get bottom used to new saddle. New pannier rack ORDERED Install new pannier rack New bike knicks for Linda REPAIRED New gloves Sleeping mats which don't deflate. Fix the PDA. Replace our camera with one that works without the rubber bands around it. Thank you eBay. New camera has shown up. Quite impressive but I should hold judgement until I develop the first roll of film.. Book the first nights accomodation in the Blue Mountains. Shop for the first few days food. Buy a phone card or two. Find the alarm clock. Battery for the alarm clock Clean the panniers. They were brown, now they are pink :-). I seem to remember them being red when we bought them. Water proof the panniers. Finish water proofing the panniers - I ran out of spray. Clean the Raincoats (a bit like cleaning the bike) Clean the water bags Clean the sleeping bags Clean the Gound sheets Clean Ourselves. (Futile) Do my BAS (thats GST statement for non Australian Business people) Buy a complete collection of batteries Check my BAS - Yet to be done << Prev - Next >> |