Day 1 - Adelaide to Wellington

Climb, Climb, Climb. For almost 50km's out of the 102km's we did, we climbed. That was not fun and took us almost half of the 6hrs on the road just to do.

But I should start from the beginning.

8am wake up to get the bikes ready so that we could be on the road by 10am. That almost happened. We only missed our start time by one and a half hours but we were at Rymill Park when we said we would. Just had to fiddle with the bikes a little.

Then off we went.

Seems the day was destined to be eventful.

To begin with Jason got attacked by ants after he stopped on the side of the road and just happened to be standing on the nest. Then half way up Mount Lofty we met some riders from the UK who were on their final day of a Sydney to Adelaide tour, and Garry had a small accident (ran into a barricade on the way up the Adelaide hills) and scratched his pannier bag but didnt come off. Great skill on his part he thinks, mind you he was only doing about 5kph.

Then we climbed and climbed some more.

The hill we had to get to the top of.

On the way up we went through a little town called Hahndorf. A German themed town in the outer hills of Adelaide. This was our first main stop for some lunch, a German sausage sandwich. A nice place but very busy.

Then one of the worst experiances of the day. The dread dirt road. It was our intention to cut a few km's off the days ride. It started off promising and a little fun. A smooth road with a few bumps here and there. Then it got angry and seemed to never end. Bumpy, rocky and sandy. It was like that for almost 10km's if not a little longer.

When we finally hit a bit of tarmac Garry couldnt believe it so he kissed the road. That may have been a bit premature as the wind came up and wanted to stop us dead in our tracks

Finally after 102km's and many trials along the way we got to our first stop, Wellington. A bed, shower and food awaited us.

On to day 2.