Tag: Alice Springs

  • Super Moon, or Not.

    As most of you know, I usually go for a morning walk.  But my knee hurts.  And my hips hurt.  And the temp outside is 2 C.  I’ve heard that 60 is the new 40 but I’m not sure my body has gotten the message. There was supposed to be a ‘super’ moon setting this…

  • Finke follow-on

    To those of you who are interested… the Finke race finishes today but for our Chad it finished late yesterday.  He had a crash about 40k into the 240k first leg and injured his shoulder (the one he injured very badly several years ago).  Keen to finish, he struggled on, trying to tightly hold the…

  • Finke

    Every year on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend there is a race run in the outlying desert area near Alice Springs.  It’s called the Finke Desert Race.  Locals call it the Finke, or just Finke because Aussies shorten everything! The organisers label it ‘the most fun you can have with a helmut on’… okay I’ll…

  • Home Again

    We have been travelling.  As usual it was inspiring, frustrating, exhausting, exhilarating, bewildering and enlightening. I will probably write more about it as I have time to process all the experiences, but for now, I will start at the end. The end of every trip is also a beginning.  You arrive home again a slightly…