📼 This is an archived record of the 2022–2024 Ride for Hope journey. It is preserved reading, not a live trip — links, forms and dates reflect the original diary.

Preparation

I’m cold

12 June 2022 Preparation

Sitting here rugged up with the heater on in my lounge room with only the idea of a long ride to chill my bones, I’ve been pondering that I will take the season with me on a six-month ride from Melbourne to London. Whatever the season in which I start, that will be my season the whole ride through.

If I leave in Australia’s June-July Winter, then Winter will come with me all the way through to a Wintery Europe in December-January.

If, however, I delay the trip and leave Melbourne’s September Springtime, I will follow Spring all the way through to March in Europe.

A much better idea.

So September departure it is. That gives me longer for preparation I guess. I don’t want that, but it’ll be worth it.