Day 2 - off to Broken Hill 475 Kms

After a cool start at a free amp near Cobar we headed for Willcania. The weather was shite. The truck is going gangbusters. Averaged better than 18 LPH. The rain cleared by mid arvo and it actually got to 16 degrees.

We found an excellent bush camp about 6 kms north of broken hill. It’s a wonderful high point looking west. The sunset was spectacular.

The old and the new

 

Nice combo of Red and Brown mud on B100

Day 1 550Kms to Cobar NSW

well day one was pretty uneventful after a cold and wet start oh I forgot muddy we headed for Mudgee to Lisa‘s favourite coffee and French pastry shop and then across round the back of Dubbo all the way to Cobar. The last hour was a bit of a Drag. The truck is going awesome and the new chip is delivering great fuel economy at 17 L per hundred kilometres. We have a lovely camp in Cobar by the reservoir. Our hip camp reservation was cancelled last minute due to some rain last night.

Our first trip to Central Australia

Our First day out in 1978

Packing up

 

It’s official, Lake Eyre is Full

Lake Eyre is now at capacity

It’s been a while

Tomorrow we are heading to Central Australia. The plan is to visit Lake Eyre and hopefully see it full of water. We have been preparing for the trip for the last couple of months. That is my favourite part. This will be the first run for B100 ( our new Iveco Desert Tourer) we are towing a small hybrid camper as our slide on us still not built. We will be travelling with Ash and Will. They are flying to Whyalla and we pick them up in 5 days. We will then drive up to William Creek for a joy flight over the lake.

Last weekend we had a test camp it was minus 4 overnight . Here is the rig all set up

Amsterdam

A couple of days in Amsterdam before our flight home. Checked out the Van Gogh museum then spent some time on the canals on a cruise. 

2500 houseboats average price 350000euro. Nicer ones well over a million 

This is a bike station next to a busy train station. Three levels high. Thousands of bikes. 

Last day in Nijmegen

Mike,Teo,Peter and Lucas

Train ride to Amsterdam

The pack up

The last 2 days have been huge. We had 40 bikes to recrate and send home. Organised kaos is probably the best description. Everyone was tired and a little bit cranky. Everyone wanted to do there own bike. Despite a few prize dickheads it all went pretty well. This arvo we caught the bus back to Nijmegen from the warehouse for the last time. Tonight I'm going with peter to visit Eric. Eric is the creator of the famous swallower chain drive Guzzi. He is a great engineer and we are going to visit his workshop. Should be a hoot. 

Tomorrow we will catch our breath before heading to Amsterdam on Thursday. 

The final ride

La Trappe Quadrupel 10%

Now that's beer !!

Day 41- the last stand

Today we departed cologne for the last leg of our Motorcycle journey. At was only a couple of hundred kilometres. It was nice to have a beautiful GPS & roadworks fuckup in the last 50kms just to finish the trip off. 

Gertie is locked up at the hotel. We will wash her ready for repacking next week. 

I guess this weekend we will just have to drink beer 😀

Cologne-Germany

Cathedral of Saint Peter

For Curly

Firewood stacks

Rhine river-Swiss German border

Inside the bridge

Looking back at bridge

Day 39- autobahn

Today we had to get 450km from Zurich to Frankfurt. Most of that we did on the autobahn. It's not for the feint hearted. When you pop into the super fast lane you have to make sure you can't see any lights in your mirror. They come so fast that if you can already see them it's too late to pull out. I limit Gertie to 130km. The go sat like your in 1 st gear. It's very tiring. 

While we let the GPS guide us today we were thrilled that it took us through a magnificent country detour that included a wooden bridge that was incredible. I'm sitting in the bar drinking German beer. Yum. 

Derny racing in Zurich

Day 38- on the road again

We have been watching a weather window that was our best chance to get up the Stelvio pass between Switzerland and Italy. Today was the day. We headed out of Saint Moritz at 9.30. It was cold. 2 hours later we were at over 3000 meters on the top of Stelvio pass. It was cold. Gertie was named after the famous pass. It was fitting that we took her up there

After we bought a sticker for Gertie and a t shirt for me we headed back into Switzerland. We rode all the way to Zurich. It was a solid 5-1/2 day of very high concentration. Mikey is a zombie tonight but it was good to tick off something I've wanted to do for s long time. 

Tonight we went to the velodrome in Zurich. The derny racing was hectic

Stelvio Pass ✔️

He's finally done it-Stelvio on the Stelvio(sorry Gertie)

Beautiful weather sun shining and lots of snow

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St Moritz images

3057 mts Top station

Train on the way up

So much snow and 1 degree Celsius 

St Motitz-wow!

Everything is gorgeous here. I love it. 

Bellagio images