Two long days on the bike -- approximately 1200 km -- saw us arrive in Alice Springs via the Barkly Homestead and Tennant Creek on Friday, 3rd September for the commencement of our long-awaited Hog Rally.
We have enjoyed great weather over the 6000 kilometres so it had to change and it sure did when the sky opened for the last 100. We were reduced to a speed of 50 km/ph and had to lean the bike into the wind. This is the price you pay when you ride.
Barkly Homestead was a great place to relax for an hour or so and our campsite at Tennant Creek was a green and welcomed respite. We learnt what keeps the town of 3000 alive. Welfare!!
Alice Springs with a population of 28,000 (8000 indigenous) is quite amazing and not at all what we expected. Everyone we spoke to loved the place even though there are major problems with the Aboriginal community which is mainly due to alcohol .
Our Hog Rally was fantastic and the Alice Chapter made us so welcome.
The highlight for Marie-Louise must surely have been riding the bike through the Bojangles Hotel, trailer in tow.
The whole event was being broadcast around the world live.
Here is a comment from their web site regarding how popular this pub is.
"Congratulations Bojangles for a record 5.2 million hits in a month!"
We entered our bike and trailer in the Show and Shine mainly because so many people were
asking about our camper trailer. No trophy but lots of interest.
Monday morning, 5am and the bus arrived to take the two of us along with Stefan aged 15,
Anne-Louise, 13, Erika, 11 and Yoshi, 7 (Marie-Louise's grandkids) to Ayers Rock, King's
Canyon and the Olgas.
No words needed except to say: 6.2 km walk around King's Canyon on the first day, and
10.2 km around The Rock on the second.
This was no small feat for kids especially Yoshi and Erika.
A 1000 kilometre round trip in 2 days; an early night by all is due.
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