Melrose to Quorn 71km
76km..... We had a detour out of the mud onto the highway.
After waking up nice and warm in the back of the van, I did not even put my jacket on before breakfast. Breakfast was a walk into the town hall and just as we got back the rain started to come in. And then rain jacket came off and did not come off again until shower time. Boy was it cold and wet today!
I am sure it was warmer when I got out of bed to when we got on the bikes.
It's been almost comical to see Bike SA staff fall over themselves to talk and be nice to mum and I after my little spat the other night. Mind you.... Morning tea was exactly the same AGAIN! But smart thinking mum got a nice bun from the bakery in Jamestown yesterday and we had that.
Lunch today was 1/4 chicken and salad... A little hard to eat at the top of a windy cold hill with no forks. There was a detour after lunch away from the mud. The directions given were not that crash hot, but we mag angled to find our way down to the highway and into Quorn. We have had another great day of riding. It was 24km before we struck a little rise in the road and 39km before I had to change gears. Such a change from the last day of riding. We did have a few nice little hills before lunch, but once on the highway away from the mud it was again pretty flat, I think this is the reason we got into town at 1.35pm.
It took another hour in the line up to wash our bikes down.
We found our tent.... Until we got to Melrose the tent where set up in order.... Melrose saw them all over the shop and today.... We are in the middle between 3 and 4 and next to 4 is 17.... We are tent number 30!
We had to go down to the truck to get the blankets for the bottom of the tent, only to be told by the truck driver. "Try not to get them wet, it makes it hard to carry" .... MAYBE just MAYBE Bike SA could give us a dry tent and we would not give them back wet blankets in the morning! Like I already said, it rain all day on the ride today and its very overcast sitting here this afternoon?
There will be a storm of mum and me if there is a wet tent in the morning for us!
Then we head down to the shower truck... A lady tells us as we walk in the guy running the truck has turned the temp up today 'cos it's cold' ..... HELLO it's day 11.... HELLO... OMG I sound like all I am doing in whinging.... But for fuck sake, it's cold and people (other people besides us!) have been complaining about the showers since day one!
We are sitting in the semi warm hall checking maps for tomorrow and having a drink.
It's still an hour and 1/2 to dinner, so I am sure I will have an update for you later on the continuing saga of this ride.
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