Comfort Inn May Park Horsham

... by eating a whole roast chicken, some fruit, protein shake, large bowl of pasta, chips,
some more fruit, a couple of power bars and some cups of tea, then honey & bread.
We are in for a BIG DAY tomorrow - 204kms. We'll be up & riding by 6:30 hopefully.
Vital statistics - ride time - 6hrs49mins, elasped time - 11 hours, distance - 179.3km, ave spd - 26.2kph, max spd - 49.8kph.

It has been raining on and off for the past week. On a particularly dreary stretch, we headed into Horsham to spend the night in a cabin at the caravan park. What luxury! We had our own bed, a kitchen and bathroom, not to mention a little tv! Nice.
It was nice to stay dry, and we figured because we were only paying $2 a person for camping in the Pines, we deserved a treat. We like to treat ourselves often:)
"Dirtbagging" is often taken to incredible ...

I cannot express how happy Dave and I are. We picked up our van from Joe, the used car dealer, on the 16th and were very happy. He had built a bed in the back for us and with the exception of a slow transmission leak (which we are getting taken car of next week), the van was perfect. We hightailed it out of Melbourne as fast as we could after getting a few essential supplies...unfortunately we didn't purchase a backpacker's van ...

Well once again Ronda has asked me to do the next travel blog or two as we have had an eventful couple of weeks. On April 20 Jordy and I went to what is considered to be one of the best climbing cliffs in the world, Arapiles in Victoria, Australia. It wasn't very far about 4 and a half hours drive. for two nights.We had an good time and some excellent climbs ...

... is it. No walking around, no talking to other pigs, no rummaging through piles of straw as pigs love to do... remember these are highly intelligent and trainable animals. It is kind of like locking your dog in its kennel and leaving it there for 10 years. What ethics system could possibly justify this? Or chickens, which are grown in cages until they are big enough to eat, and then killed? This is horrific, so I started thinking maybe I should ...

... to find, particularly when one is traveling from town to town every day. And then there is the financial cost of doing this, as this type of meat tends to cost 2-3 times as much as 'normal' meat, but if me saving a few dollars means that some pig has to suffer for 10 years in a concrete prison, then I would sooner pay twice the price or go without meat altogether.

It's about living out what we say we believe.

Isn't that what Jesus was on about?

... We thought about driving to mckenzie falls this afternoon but decide to leave it until tomorrow, on our travels anyway. Its getting quite hot again today and the pool at wimmera lakes is beckoning... but before we go home and switch off again we spot an old junkyard opposite and as its been a while since we've seen steptoes (where we picked up our bargain roofrack) we go ...

... toward evening and after our meal sitting outside in the shade, but there was little relief from the heat in the brief puffs of wind that occasionally happened. I went to bed early. Sunday Dec 2nd was a bit cooler in the morning, and in fact did not get up to the temperature of yesterday thank heavens. We got up quite late and I called Laurie Edmonds (Mum 's cousin) to see if we could visit, and we arranged to go around to his place in the ...

... Damien and a guy called Dale. To be fair my nerves were still frazzled but this was a really nice climb. I even went last on the rope sometimes as I like the challenge of getting the gear out of the rock. I met a couple from Wales on the last ledge and they must be retired and on a good pension as they'd been to New Zealand and done lots of cool stuff there, then Melbourne and Tasmania, then climbing and were then off to Cairns to dive the ...

... followed the trail, and our way seems faster anyhow. Soon we're at the Pinnacle, a sharp peak of rock sticking out over the valley and Halls Gap below. Too bad everything is absolutely socked in with fog. The way down relies on us catching every single one of the arrows and we do, and catch up with Jen at the turn off through the forest to the car park. I go down and have a read of a magazine on the bus, and forty minutes later everyone ...