23-25 August, 2013 For the third year running, we headed out to Parkes and the Back Yamma State Forest for a fun weekend away at a great mountain bike race – the Back Yamma Bigfoot. We were being joined on…
22-25 March, 2013 A regular event on my mountain biking calendar is ‘The Mont’. A team, 24 hour relay race. Some refer to it as the City to Surf of Mountain Biking, which is probably a pretty good description. Riders…
Unlike this time last year when we were on our big Fraser Island trip, this year we only had 1 week to spend in the camper. Rach’s family from New Zealand had been with us for a week over Christmas,…
2-4 November, 2012 In keeping with our recent tradition of visiting familiar places, when the Louis family suggested a camping weekend, Burralow was the obvious choice. Within a couple of easy hours drive from Sydney on a Friday afternoon, the…
26-29 October, 2012 Keen followers of our blog (are there any out there?!) may recognise that we’ve been here before. We had a good time, and loved the look of the waterfront sites that are right on Lake Macquarie. So…
7-11 September, 2012 As winter draws to a close it is time to start thinking about getting back out in the camper again, and what better way to do that than to combine it with my favourite mountain bike race…
13-16 April, 2012 I needed a rest! The first week of the holidays had been pretty crazy and I needed some time to relax. Away from gardens, trees, mulch, shovels… and anything else associated with gardens! Fortunately for me we…
23-26 March, 2012 This is the third year in a row that I’ve raced in the ‘Mont 24‘ – a 24 hour mountain bike race held in the sweet single tracks of Canberra. One of the side ‘benefits’ of this…
17-28 January, 2012 Well, our holiday was now officially over. Rach had to go back to work on Wednesday, so it was back to Sydney on Tuesday – our destination, Lane Cove River Tourist Park. We checked in and drove…