Thursday, June 28, 2007

Day 24: Outlook to Davidson 94km


The plan for today was to make it to the town of Craik, which is 30km after Davidson but due to crazy weather that wasn't possible. We got up at the usual time of 4.30am and were ready by 6.00am. Today though we decided to go to the restaurant in Outlook for breakfast part 1. Breakfast part 1 is usually fruit and whatever else we have in the cooler. After yesterdays hard ride we treated ourselves to a small breakfast. We hit the road at 7.30am and experienced for me anyway the hardest bit of riding so far.
The wind was directly in our faces and the rain was coming down, not the greatest of combinations. It took us 4 hours to cover 55km and it was the hardest 55km ever. We arrived in the town of Kenaston and of course found a great little restaurant run by a friendly Chinese couple. This may sound like it is becoming repetitive but everyday is so different and each small town has its own character, it is just that all the restaurants are the same and run by Chinese couples.
Anyway after this we waited and waited for the rain to stop but it didn't so we just plugged on and just made it to Davidson soaked to the bone so we stayed in a Inn and dried out for the night. In the restaurant in Davidson an interesting old chap named Elmer gave us 20 dollars for our dinner and is planning to write about us in the local paper. He also owns an organic farm and gave us some information about it. He also told me about his time in England and Germany in the War, which for me was great banter not sure Agnes was to interested though.

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