The next 2 days will be devoted to getting back up to the Territory and liberating 'darkie' from her dungeon!
Its double stress for me as it is Ducatijoolz birthday the day we arrive up in Darwin and I will be required to arrange something suitable no doubt!
So, my shout at Shenannigans from 1900 Thursday.....c u there?
Friday will be another stress filled day with getting Darkie running after a 60 days rest as I know the battery goes down slowly, still, have packed an old set of jumper leads that I can chuck once shes going
On my little map of our first 3 days on the road:
Red is Saturday morning into Litchfield NP,
Blue is a squiz at some shit in the NP,will camp out here somewhere.
Most of purple is dirt as we head back to the Stuart,
Green is a bit unknown, but dirt and:
Yellow is all dirt and quite remote in places( good chance to see wild stuff)
Camping again near Jabiru.
Orange is the start of the 1700km 'transport' stage down to the Alice!
I'm unsure of my qualifications to call this an adventure, you see, we don't wear peaks! But we will regale you from time to time with just whats happening up here and how good the biking is( even if it don't class as adventure!!)
Be in touch soon.
Jamie.
I'm no gynaecologist, however I would be happy to take a look......................
Will watch with interest and I cannot belive you are going to put yourself through more self abuse with Darkie.....
AND, I don't wanna hear any more war stories about fuel woes....
Have fun out there....
There's lots of neat stuff to see around there. The Stuart highway is pretty straight & flat all the way to Alice, but there is a surprising amount of stuff to see & do on the way.
I'm unsure of my qualifications to call this an adventure, you see, we don't wear peaks! But we will regale you from time to time with just whats happening up here and how good the biking is( even if it don't class as adventure!!)
Be in touch soon.
Jamie.
Ah mate, looking at that map brings a heap of memories flooding back and thoughts of "next time".
I hope the weather behaves itself for you guys.
Looking at the box last night, Darwin was 34 degrees and raining. Still, it's cooler than when we were last there, but no rain then.
What was it you were saying about your heat/humidity tolerance?
More importantly, I have been out there selling tickets to your latest stoush with Oscar. I just need you to keep it all in one thread and I will make a killing, OK?
If you co-operate, I might even cut you in for some of the action.
I may not be as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I always was.
Oscar is ahead by a peak....Just....Coz Jimmy has been quiet.....
Wait for it though, by tomorrow morning there will be an explosion of expletives and humour....
Wish I could peak into the future on this one!
AND I would write more but I am feeling a little Peaky....
Oscar is ahead by a peak....Just....Coz Jimmy has been quiet.....
Dropped them off at the airport this morning - 4 a.m. bugger.
So they are under way - Sydney, Adelaide and Darwin tonight. That is if the dust cloud lets them into Sydney.
He hadn't seen it, so I warned him that I had hijacked his thread just a little. Normal service may resume this evening.
On the other hand, it's Julie's birthday today and so he may have other priorities.
I may not be as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I always was.
Peaked to soon, get, huh huh, oh I slay me, show mercy
Hahahah bloody ha.
I have had other problems to cause me to feel a wee bit peakish. Like 11 hrs spent waiting round yesterday!
3 hours xtra spent in Orks cause yesterdays aircrew worked later than planned because of Syds dust, and could not return to duty in time for our flyte. Missed our connector ex Syds then, so were rescheduled on a direct to Darwin at 8 last nite. Got to our digs at 0100 local, 0330 nz, 24.5 hrs after we left the divine comfort of chez Baxteur.
Now I know wot an adventure is!
I felt that for sure with a start like that, today would be shit. It almost was too......got to the lockup and found Darkie, dusted her off, she was pleased to see me I think, but wouldn't turn over inspite of the lite going quite well....hmmmm.
Covers off and the old jumper lead I took was duely attached....still a nice lite and no starter,......just needs some time on the jumper me thinx? Havn a wee squizz around I happens to notice the kill switch is off, I didn't leave it like that but the gang here had done a relocation for me and maybe bumped it??....however, that corected and she was into life!
My expected delivery of a 'liquid containments' 12L bladder had not arrived in spite of my best laid plans.....bugger! Then the nice lady who runs the place comes round with a parcel and says this is for you....Hoorah.
Back to the digs and start trying to find a spot for the kitchen sink, just behind the makeup mirror beside the hairdryer will do just fine. Don't know where the bladder will go if it is full, I know where mine feels best!, still, we can make that up as we go along its a wee while before we need that much reserve.
Oh man is it hot and steamy here? Bass, your weather man is wrong, as I knew him to be, there has been no rain here yet but the build up is about a month early, so after 5 minutes out and about, you feel like youve been caught in a downpour! We will suffer. Count on that.
Off to Litchfield tomorrow, just a short day to ease into it, 140-170km abouts, want to get outta hair ( like the brazillian, remember?) before 0700 in morning and get to a nice, shadey campsite beside a nice waterhole before the sun gets too high, and spend the arvo 'acclimatizing'. Pity there is no room for beer, but DJoolz says we must eat. Bugger. Well, must go and finish taking onboard the next 2 nites worth of beer now, have fun you buggers.
Jamie
I'm no gynaecologist, however I would be happy to take a look......................
But we will regale you from time to time with just whats happening up here and how good the biking is( even if it don't class as adventure!!)
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