Month: April 2013

The napa has been awarded this morning in Snowtown to Mark Dirty Harris who replaced the throbbing donk on his trusty or actually not so trusty steed last night After several breakdowns and more fuel run outs than mark weber dirty gratefully received the award

As we are running well for time a decision to visit Snowtown suggest some of the organizers may have a dark side or possibly even a macabre nature          

The Mercure Grosvenor Adelaide is getting ready for the onslaught as it is going to be descended upon by 33 Male Baggers and their 140 guests tonight at The Treasury Wines sponsored gala dinner. This will the the biggest thing in Adelaide all year, as any good Victorian would know, the City of Churches is
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We have stopped for breakky at the tin man roadhouse just off port pirie and have our own version of Dorothy doing some media and chatting to the port pirie prostate cancer support group Parko with his red gloves rather than Dorothy’s Red shoes A lazy 80 or 90 k ride on an empty stomach
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Tonight saw the first big disappointment of the trip Dinner was held at Ian’s pub Very good meal and great laughter Problem is that there was so much noise that the NAPA was not awarded thereby breaking a tradition that commenced a mere 7 days ago When interviewed, previous recipients and inaugural inductees to the
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One very astute and sharp eyed male bagger took this photo earlier this evening in the big4 tourist park at Port Augusta. The questions are being asked as to Who put such a critical element in the bin? Who’s bike was it from and finally who had the technical capacity to perform such a momentous
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After nearly 9 hours and 466ks we have reached the big4 at port Augusta This blogger’s only memories of being here 35 years ago was the floods that stopped the family from getting to the wilpena pound (they wouldn’t divert there today the fiends) and Darrel Venables slipping on the water pipeline and needing stitches
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This afternoon after 4 days of being like a man with no arms we have reached the edge of civilization At least in Vodafone terms as I now have signal so look out for frequent updates By the way we have never left civilization as the nullabor while pretty expensive has some of the best
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As you are all aware we have been crossing the Nullabor for the past 3 days and to say that phone coverage is awful is an understatement. Vodaphone has not worked since a little after leaving Esperance on Saturday Morning so if you have not heard from your man, that goes part of the way
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