The end is near...

Date: 24-02-2010 - 12-03-2010 Day 19-35: Queanbeyan, NSW

… of our stay at Dan’s. Some asked: “Where have you been?”

The last 3 weeks and 2 days, we have been staying near Canberra. Despite all the latest electronic gizmos and gadgets available at Dan’s, it was more work than play. Lukas worked hard on his manuscript, reading and coding some newspapers in the UK and Germany for the last 10 years. Sue fuelled and fattened us up with some good hearty homecooked meals (see pics ;p) for the road ahead. That said, we have not completely abandoned our bikes. Some days we would bike about 30km to the National Library or Canberra city centre and back to run our errands. It took time to deal with the logistics, namely our visa, flights, insurance etc.

As spontaneous as we often roll, changes in our plan are inevitable. Instead of having until July to pedal ourselves to Perth, we now have until end of May to fly off from Perth (or Sue gets deported!) Based on our planned route, it should take us about 50 days to cycle to Perth. And if Clea and Garrett made it in 30 days, we should be able to do it in almost twice the amount of time. Right?

RIGHT-O! !
Thank you for all for your support, kind words and for following us! The adventure shall resume in 3.5 days. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that it will NOT be the same ‘wet’ farewell that Sydney gave us! Stay tuned.. ;=)

Next destination: Yass, NSW

“Someone stole my water bottle!”…

Day 6 & 7: Wollongong, NSW

…said Lukas, when his water bottle was not in his bag where he said he had it. A common phrase heard from Lukas when his forgetfulness prevails. Oh well! Sue breaks stuff and Lukas loses stuff. Makes us a great couple, eh? Luckily that ‘someone’ didn’t take any of our more valuable possessions. ; )

As we were mostly working away at the university’s library during the day, followed by the council library in town, there is not much to report, except that progress is great. Here are some more pictures as a glimpse of our current ‘home’.

This off-road path for pedestrian and bikes stretches from Thirroul (about 15km north) and takes us all the way to town, and we’re lovin’ it!

There weren’t a clear view of the mountain ranges when we arrived. Now there is!

We only returned to the resort after 9pm. The next thing we know, a fortress of tents, armed by excited kids and teachers trying to take charge, was set up across from us. We had a better glance in the morning.

Today (Thursday) we are highly motivated! We arrived before 8am at the university and had breakfast while awaiting the library to open at 8:30am. Lukas could not wait to start working on his manuscript.

***News flash!! Water bottle found and retrieved! It was sitting at the countertop of the café where we bought our afternoon snacks. So that ‘someone’ was the countertop that took his bottle hostage!***

Locations: [NSW] North Sydney - Heathcote - Coledale - Wollongong