Blog 13 Days: 63-69 Dates: 12th – 18th August Distance: 684km Total Distance 2023: 4514km Total Distance (2021 + 2023): 6042km Tracking map: https://z6z.co/breaking-the-cycle-australia/ From Tjuntjuntjara the aim was to reach Laverton and Leonora in the northern goldfields (Western Australia). The route taken isn’t a usual one for drivers and there were a lot of unknowns […]
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Tjuntjuntjara and the Spinifex People
Blog 12 Days 61-62 Dates: 10th – 11th August Tjuntjuntjara Total Distance 2023: 3830km Total Distance 2021, 2023 – 5358km Tracking map: https://z6z.co/breaking-the-cycle-australia/ (access the tracking map for the 2021/23 journey) While organising this expedition I learned about the Spinifex people, or Anangu, whose homeland is in the Great Victoria Desert. These people were displaced […]
Anne Beadell Highway – Part II
Blog 11 Days 55-60 Dates: 4th – 9th August Vokes Hill Corner to Tjuntjuntjara Distance – 573km Total Distance 2023: 3830km Total Distance 2021, 2023 – 5358km Day 55 To Vokes Hill Corner 91.5km I seemed to recover pretty well from the overheating incident the day before. Stopping early, rehydrating and taking my usual salmon […]
William Creek to Dalhousie Springs and the Painted Desert
Blog 10 Days 43-47 Dates: 23rd – 28th July Distance – 401km Total Distance 2023: 2896km Total distance (2021/23) – 4424km On hearing the news that the delay was going to be extended for most likely another six days, while the correct vehicle part was being shipped from the USA, I decided to do an […]
Coober Pedy
Blog 9 Days 32-42 Dates:12th July – 22nd July The Breakaways – 10km (cycling) Total distance: 2496km On my original plan, Coober Pedy was meant to be a pit stop with a maximum of three days off to rest and prepare for the next stage. With the key support vehicle broken down and on its […]
Opal fields and the country in between – Part 1
Blog 7 Days 24-31 Dates: 5th June – 11th July Woomera to Coober Pedy: 575km Total distance: 2486km In Woomera we had to make a decision about which route I should ride to Coober Pedy – continue straight up the busy Stuart Highway for another 365km or take my preferred, longer and more interesting route […]
Following the Ghan Railways (Old and New)
Blog 6 Dates: 28th June – 3rd July Marree – Port Augusta – Woomera: 575km Total distance: 1961km — Day 18 Marree to Lyndhurst – 83km It rained solidly the whole time we were in Marree and with no chance of the Oodnadatta Track opening for at least a week, possibly two weeks, I had […]
The Birdsville Track
Blog 5 Days 12 – 16 Dates – 22th-26th June Total distance – 1386km The Birdsville Track – Birdsville to Marree – 527km The Birdsville Track was opened in the 1860s to walk cattle from northern Queensland and the Northern Territory to the nearest railhead in Port Augusta, which was later moved to Marree. Percy Burt was the pioneering drover credited […]
Head down ’til the finish
Blog 13 Londres to San Francisco Pass/the Argentine-Chile border 19th – 21st April 2022 Days 51 – 53 Distance – 327km Total distance – 3248km TOTAL DISTANCE FOR 2020/2022 EXPEDITIONS – 4354km This journey began in 2020 (before the onset of the pandemic) from Cusco in Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan Empire. Given […]
Salt pans, lakes and rugged tracks
Blog 6 18th – 23rd March Uyuni to Lake Colorada Total Distance – 1227km Before leaving Uyuni, I hadn’t mentioned the reason for its existence – the railway. The town was established in 1893 when the railway line was built to link the nearby silver mines to the coast at Arica. From there it was […]
