Perth to Albany Adventure Ride 2009 – Monday
Seven intrepid riders plus a roadie were ready for the 550km++ 6 day ride. First stage, 112km to Brookton. 5km of gentle riding before you are confronted with 8km of hill to climb. But a beautiful cool start to the day (before the hill anyway) and little or no wind. Perfect!
We make it up the hill and before too long it is morning tea break. David, our roadie, gets the table and chairs out of the trailer and food instantly appears – as well as our water bottles topped up. We are not slumming it. It doesn’t get better than this. Repeat for lunch only the amount of food gets larger.
Jason and Ange are riding shotgun for us at the start of the riders and David in the 24 seater bus plus trailer at the rear.
There is little traffic on the road and the drivers are courteous.
After around 4h 40m of riding time (significantly more when you add, morning tea, apple breaks, lunch break, afternoon tea…) we arrive at Brookton to settle at the Sports Pavillion, our home for the night.
Snacks immediately come out after the luggage is unloaded. Soon followed stew and pasta salad for dinner. David organises it all, then clears away afterwards and does the dishes. And “no” I am not giving anyone his phone number!
It is 6:30pm and we are crawling into our sleeping bags and people are asking “is it time to go to sleep yet?”.
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