Taken from my Facebook page. Hi everyone, The following is a Facebook post. For technical reasons I apologies that I can't post photos here. So, as text is better than nothing I will persevere with this blog. Continued thanks to Scott Richards for setting this blog up for me 😀
Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates. I have been partly lazy and have other had other issues to deal with..
For those that don't know.. I paused my walk last week as Michael Gillan, my great crewman across Australia picked up hernia problems. Because of this we drove the 700 kms back to his home in Melbourne so as he could see a specialist. Muscle damage was diagnosed and he has to wait three months for an operation.
He was so disappointed at having to finish our road trip and tells me he misses the road already and that he hopes to fly to Sydney for my Australian finish. Previously, I mentioned that I was considering an extension in Australia, i.e.: up the east coast to Cairns. Now, I think I will revert to my old plan and finish in Sydney, whenever that is! I thank Michael from the bottom of my heart. He has done a fabulous crew job for me and I will miss him badly.
Because of this I had to fly to Auckland, New Zealand - whereI had previously sent on Karma, my cart. Thanks to my great mates Sue and Alan Knox (pic 1) for minding it and also for great hospitality there. My cart is wrapped up for the airport in pic 2.)
I left the rest of my baggage, ie: tent, sleeping bag etc at the St. Just Cafe in Burra. It was the nearest town to my route and there was no point in me taking it all when I went to pick up my cart. Thanks to Sandra the kind cafe owner for minding this stuff for me.
Tonight, Wednesday I am back in Burra and am staying in the towns campground. It's about 30kms up the road towards Booborowie to the location where I paused my walk, at km post 15. See my usual marking technique in Photo 11, A plastic bottle taped to the post, hi-tech, lol 😀
Tomorrow I will hitch a ride back to my route: at km 15, where I finished last week and walk to Burra town and spend another night in the campsite. Then on Friday morning I will get my cart and walk on, on my own.
Mega, Mega thanks to Sputnik Sputnik - Pic 4 for reaching out to solve a huge problem that I had: getting back to my route from Adelaide airport. as it was 160 km off of my route. He kindly picked me up from airport and brought me and Karma back to Burra ..
It turned out that Sputnik is also the marketing director for Australia's finest running and outdoor apparel, a brand called ioMerino as modeled by yours truly 😂
Merino is a wool from a breed of sheep of the same name and is super warm. Other Merino qualities are that the material doesn't stink or collect bacteria as it pretty much wicks odour and bacteria away! This is important for me as on a walk like this I am often obliged to sleep in the clothes I walk in as in some locations showers are a rarity!
Amazingly, I was only looking at this Merino stuff the previous day but it was way out of my price range! So I was over the moon when Sputnik asked ioMerino for a sample for me! What can I say... Thanks so, so much, I am delighted. 😀
People are so good. Get well Michael Gillan (Pictured 7-10) and thanks everyone. Special thanks to Patrick Mc Donnell for also reaching out to me too; as he also offered to pick me up from the airport and drop me back to my route!
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