Wally and Sue's Adventure Concludes

They did it! Aren't they fabulous! Yahoo, for Wally and Sue. Congratulations, break out the champagne ... o, oh, they already did that ... oh, well, they'll just have to celebrate all over again when they get back to Coffs. They write:

"The BIG ride is finished, we arrived in Carnarvon on Friday and were escorted into town by our son Adam on his scooter and the champagne was flowing that night. All up we covered 3,800km, I suggested we do another 200 but Wally wouldn't be in it - I don't know why. It's nice to be in a house with a bathroom after 2 months, don't have to dig a hole any more.

The best section was Darwin to Broome for scenery, from Broome to Carnarvon some parts of the Pilbara were awesome but a lot was fairly monotonous. We met a few other cyclists but not many. We were waved at and tooted by just about everyone that went by and the road trains were fantastic, always gave us plenty of room when they could. Except for some punctures caused by burrs the bikes had no problems and our legs and bums stood up well. The road surface out here is terrible, stones that are not laid very close together so harder to ride on.

We had a few gruelling days into strong headwinds but overall we were lucky with winds and weather. We are off to Exmouth for a week with Adam on Tuesday staying in comfortable accomodation.

Hope all is well in Coffs, cheers Sue and Wally."

Aren't they just magnificient? I'm over the moon for them both! Carolyn