Lazy Dayz.

OOThe Exitement Continues. Thursday 13/08/15.

Today, bit of drizzle in South Yunderup, not to cold.

By Will.

Not to much action over the last week for Jenny and I. The semi-retired life at home is pretty cruisey, we do wake up at a reasonable time, usually around 7am. Then we "work" for about an hour and a half in bed, well we call researching our future trips & reading other people's blogs working.

Last Sunday we did a 34km training ride, here's Jenny riding along Old Mandurah Rd.

Short cut over the Suspension Bridge, Pinjarra WA.

The planning for the Nullarbor Cycle trip is coming along nicely, we have a route mapped out & tonight Barry is staying over so we can discuss the support vehicle section from Hyden to Norseman over dinner and few drinks. Barry & his wife Nicole have recently moved to Norseman, so that should work out nicely for us all.

Baz has arrived, house hand over successful he heads home to Norseman tomorrow.

Barry & I head down to the Ravenswood Hotel, while we were gone Jenny sold my  old "Shark Lure" (surfboard). I'd had it for about 22 years, don't use it anymore, $150 will come in handy for our cycling trip. Our new motto "if you don't use it, sell it"'

A couple of other positives, I have made a start on my Home Brew Beer. Haven't done one of these in years. I use to make a pretty good beer so hoping it turns out ok. When we arrive back home in 3 months it should be nicely matured & ready for drinking.

Home Brew. Cleaning bottles isn't much fun !

Have purchased a Gopro 4, made myself sort of familiar with it & installed it on Jenny's bike. We are going to take some video footage of our ride & try out a few still shots like time lapse, night skies, etc. Jen did well and managed to get the salesman at JB Hifi Mandurah to knock an extra $80 off the RRP by using her smartphone to show him that Dick Smith Electronics were cheaper. 

Gopro Hero4, should capture some good downhill runs, video with this.

Now to just figure out how it works 

Gopro mounted onto Jenny's bike "Black Betty" 

On our Cycle Tour we have 3 options for charging our phones & other gadgets, Schimdt 28 Son Dynamo, hooked up to a Cinq5 plug3 charging device, then chained to a Goal Zero battery pack. Then just plug in your Gizmo ! Easy isn't it ! Solar & 240v mains are our other 2 options.

For the first time in nearly 20 years we have purchased 2 new camp chairs !!! They are from Helinox and are called the Chair One. They are amazing and only weigh 850gms. You can check out the site if you like.

www.helinox.com.au they cost $124 each.

From newest to oldest camp chairs, purchased 2015 from Helinox, 1996 bought in Karratha WA  & 1989 (green one) our very first original from the hardware store, Broome.

The new Helinox Chair One on the left only weighs 850 grams !

Steve & Heidi at runrideroam.com who we met cycling through Europe have them & we also spoke with a Dutch cyclist couple with some similar light weight camp chairs. They all swore by them & said the extra little bit of weight was worth the comfort at the camp site.

 Steve & Heidi's runrideroam.com ,camp chairs in action, England, June 2015. It didn't take much to convince us. The other chairs in the picture we borrowed from Brad & Sue.

We are waiting for a couple of other purchases to arrive that we hope will improve our trip, the most exciting one is the Spot Gen3 Tracker. It's 3 items in one, an emergency rescue beacon, a GPS tracker so friends, family & blog followers can see where we are & a check in, I'm ok button. Cool, Jen & I will keep you updated about this and let you know if it's worthwhile or not.

Spot Gen3 Tracker, should arrive soon.

The count down is now on, we leave in about 2 weeks, in that time I'm getting my dodgey right eye checked out (all seems ok to me) by the Ophthalmologist & I have a visit with the dreaded Dentist tomorrow.