13th December 2004 (Cooma, NSW) STOP NO: 121

TOTAL RAISED TODAY: $235.65

Final Collection Total: $107,159.85 - Days on the Road: 566 - Total KM travelled: 67,219 - Number of towns visited: 408 - NSW Total: $42,763.40 - QLD Total: $32,560.70 - NT Total: $1,345.15 - WA Total: $5,479.95 - SA Total: $4,612.80 - VIC Total: $10,283.00 - ACT Total: $10,089.90 - Todays fundraising total $235.65, Total raised to date $40,413.35, Total km travelled since Official Start in Canberra 10,081. It was pouring again today when we left, what else is new!! We set off on our way regardless prepared for another very wet, cold day. Riding through Jindabyne we were quite taken at how lovely it was. We hadnt realised that Jindabyne was so big and certainly didnt know how pretty it was. Anyhow, everything is easy in retrospect and when you actually see it and not working from maps. It wasnt a bad ride to Cooma except for the fact that we were wet and freezing cold. ABC radio and the local radio stations both rang to make a time to interview us tomorrow so it seems that we will have to leave between 8am and arrive by 10.10am to fit both interviews in. We were a little early arriving in Cooma so did the banking and had a cuppa to warm ourselves up a bit before meeting the Mayor. As it turned out we had parked right outside Centenary Park which was our meeting place, have to fluke it once in a while! A few of the locals chatted away to us while we waited in the rain but most people were trying to stay as dry as possible and unfortunately there wasnt any cover where we were. We waited around for a while but the Mayor didnt arrive so Doreen went into the Tourist Information Centre to check if our details were correct. They were and the Mayor appeared to be missing in action and everyone including us was a little concerned for his welfare. The Deputy Mayor Katrin Hackney arrived to do the formalities in place of Mayor Norton. We didnt mind at all but must admit that from the description we were given of the Mayor we were a little concerned as to his safety as it seemed very out of character. We took a few minutes near the trike to take a few photos for the local paper and then retreated inside the Visitors Information Centre for the rest of the formalities to stay dry. With formalities over Doreen braved the conditions and went for her usual walk around while Garry stayed with Arthur and Martha and did his best to stay dry. We didnt expect it to be too successful a day as it was hard with the rain and cold. We didnt do too bad though considering. We had done as much as we could so went off to find somewhere to stay. The locals had told us that there was a hail storm coming so we looked for somewhere to put Arthur and Martha under some shelter. The Information Centre helped us and found a Hotel that agreed to put Arthur and Martha in their garage. Off we went to check in, Garry had to go and have the TV in Martha de-magnetised so Doreen organised as much as she could and waited for Garry to return. It was a bit tricky actually getting them both into the garage and at one stage Martha got bogged and we had to push like hell to get her out. We did manage it in the end and then went up to our room. After organising the banking for the day we returned downstairs to have dinner. The meals in the Hotel were reasonable and not bad at all and then we returned upstairs and watched a bit of TV in the guest lounge before calling it a night.

<-- LATEST

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673

PREVIOUS-->