First night on the road
The road East from Perth is a long road, don’t expect to get to far in a hurry. Personally, I don’t make plans about how far I might get in a day and besides I didn’t leave until mid day so I wasn’t going far that day. I had just spent a summer on the West Coast and 2 months in Bali, so I was in summer mode. I didn’t even consider it might rain!
“In the dream it never rained”
I was cruising the highways and byways in glorious sunshine, blue skies, in a T shirt, with the countryside flying by, wind in my hair and a smile on my face. That’s the way it is if you live in Perth, the most isolated city in the world, the sun shines 8 months of the year.
Leaving the city on the great eastern highway you come to the hills, once over the hills the country starts becoming more and more dry and barren. By the time you reach Norsman which is the beginning of the long straight stretch to South Australia, you are heading for the… Nullabour…the treeless plain….. Don’t get me wrong it’s a great trip, but on a bike it’s not exactly the road you rave about… I will rave about those roads in a later post…After the first night the rain started, just showers to start with but I was heading east, it was mid May, it could only get worse.
I am…. THE LONESOME TRAVELLER….travelling east….BE HAPPY!