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19 Mar

Articles

First night in Dili

• March 19, 2018
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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That first night in Dili, I bought myself a beer and watched the light fade over the traffic along the Avenida de Portugal. On the othe...

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16 Mar

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Landing in Dili

• March 16, 2018
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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The day I flew to Dili I was almost sick with excitement. Only one day into my life as a grown up person of thirty, and here I was flyi...

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12 Feb

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Reality Check

• February 12, 2018
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I'd made it to Darwin; Asia was just beyond the horizon. I could practically smell it. Seeing it was more difficult. Five times a day I...

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28 Jan

Articles

Smoke gets in your eyes

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I'd soaked in the hot springs and from there it was an easy run into Darwin - just four hundred kilometres up the highway. I wasn't in ...

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22 Jan

Articles

Bitter Springs

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I woke late in a lather of sweat and humidity. The sun was on my tent and it was steaming me slowly like a greenhouse tomato.

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21 Jan

Articles

Last Road to the End of Australia

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I emerged onto the great north-south sweep of the Stuart Highway at Daly Waters. It's a smooth strip of bitumen that neatly bisects Aus...

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19 Jan

Articles

Heartbreak Hotel

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I woke in the pink of dawn and packed up my roadside camp, eyes still blurred by sleep and grit. There was no shade and I was racing th...

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31 Dec

Articles

Roadside Assist

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I pulled out of Barkly Homestead and turned off the main highway. Instead of following the main road west until I hit the gigantic nort...

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28 Dec

Articles

Into the Northern Territory

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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In Camooweal that morning, I treated myself to a milky coffee at the road house where I fueled up. It had been a nice camp spot down by...

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24 Dec

Articles

A Fine Balance

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I'd investigated different routes from Boulia to Mount Isa, and the minor road through Urandangi looked like it might be fun. Local enq...

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16 Dec

Articles

Vulnerable

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I pulled off the road near a water tank, somewhere between Boulia and Mount Isa. The sun was dropping rapidly; time to find some firewo...

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15 Dec

Articles

Beastie Disassembled

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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By the next day I knew I'd be waiting a little while for my new tyres to make the migration from east coast Australia to the outback, b...

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13 Dec

Articles

Hot winds and a technological death

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I was just leaving Birdsville when I noticed a new, rough note in the sound of Beastie's single-cylinder thump. It wasn't quite a rattl...

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23 Nov

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Birdsville

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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It was pitch black and cold at 6am the next morning - cold enough to forego a morning shower and just add more layers of clothing on to...

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21 Nov

Articles

Road Kill 

• March 28, 2023
• By BIKE-HEDONIA
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I woke an hour before dawn, momentarily confused: the full moon had moved overhead and was shining through my tent and into my eyes, li...

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