Friday, 14 September 2018

A Longer Motocamping Trip

Mark Victor from Biker Bits Australia has been out doing what he calls "Rambles" all over the Australian countryside. My bike isn't designed for as off-road as he gets on some of his trips but with the right tyres on the bike it should go most places. I was watching one of his adventures where he went out to Birdsville and I think that I'd like to do the same. I started looking at just how far away that way and how many days it would take me to do that trip and I think that I'd need close to two weeks to do it, so just a little more than I should try to bite off just at the moment.
I then started looking at the map and wondered where else I could go that isn't as far away as Birdsville but still somewhere that would be an adventure to get to. I think I've decided on Bourke as the destination for my first multi-day trip. If I push myself I could probably do Bourke in one day but it would be better to do it in two, so a three night trip. Hopefully I could get kind of two thirds of the way to Bourke in the first day, that way I'd have a chance to look around when I got there on the second day and then head off in the morning of the third day and stay at somewhere about two thirds of the way back so the last day is a bit easier too. I think I'll set myself the goal of achieving this before the end of April 2019, it'll have to probably be in April or it may be too hot to travel out there, I may be able to go out in March but it's been pretty much like Summer for most of March the last couple of years. I'm not even sure what there is in Bourke, it's just one of those places that all Australians have heard of, maybe it's Opal mines or something like that but I think the Opals are in Coober Pedy. Don't know but all I know is that when someone is way out in the middle of nowhere, they often say that they are out the back of Bourke somewhere.
I do still want to get out to Birdsville, Coober Pedy or at least Cameron Corner but I don't want to set a time frame for them yet, I want to see how I go getting to Bourke, it'll probably be just one big trip away each year for the time being, two at the most. 

Bomber.
wanting to taste red dust.

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