I know, I know. Still. I’ve been in Darwin for just over one month now and have just under 4 weeks to go. It’s a mighty long stop-over but one forced by necessity and guilt. The original plan was to be long gone by now, cycling in the balmy breeze somewhere in the Indonesian archipelago, [...]
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Day 62: 10 October 2008: Darwin, NT, Australia
October 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Australia
I’ve been in Darwin for almost 2 weeks but the time has flown by. I guess that’s what happens when you go to work 8 til 4.21 (Northern Territory Public Service hours), Monday til Friday. Miraculously after only 4 days here I had a fancy job and a fancy apartment, paid for by the guys who hired [...]
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Day 52: 30 Sept 2008: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
September 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Australia
I cheated but I made it. I arrived in Darwin yesterday at 10.30am. The sun was boiling, I was drenched in sweat, I was tired, I had just cycled 115km from Adelaide River, where I had left 4.30am that morning. I had completed the first country traversing tour of my trip, having pedalled some 2 [...]
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Day 41: 19 Sept 08: Normanton, Qld, Aust
September 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Australia
Well, it’s been a hell of a few days. I got out of hospital yesterday after being nearly debilitated by heat exhaustion and dehydration. I’m feeling fine now, after the wonderful hospital staff pumped me up full of liquid loaded with complicated sounding things like electroltyes and potassium. But it’s made me re-think my plan to cycle across [...]
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Day 36: 14 Sept 2008: Georgetown, Qld, Aust
September 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Australia
It’s really starting to heat up. I rode just under 100km to get here yesterday, and I rode through the middle of the day and it felt like the sun was hanging just over my shoulder for most of the way. Really draining. On the up side I stopped at what was suppose to be [...]
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