📼 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.

Australia

On the road!

8 November 2022 Australia

The day has come. I’ve packed up and cleaned my rental accomodation, filled three bike panniers with all I will have with me for the next months, and rolled out of Melbourne. A big ride today. All the way to (just north of) Adelaide. Left at 9am, and have just now set up camp at 9:20pm. Woosh. I've landed in a national park campground. Really really pretty place. And to hail the start of this crazy adventure is the reddest fullest blood moon I have ever seen. Photos don’t do justice but I’ll include one here just so you know I’m not completely making it up.

I need to - and will - share more soon, but I’m wrecked and need to settle in for the night. Catch ya in the next instalment!