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Local Rides 2003:

Seaport Metric Century Ride:
Sunday, May 11, 2003

The Mystic Seaport Ride is offered by the Pequot Cyclist's Club. Ride from Groton through Mystic, Stonington, North Stonington and Ledyard. Time, Location and Registration please see www.pequotcyclists.com

Bob and Sue's Most Awesome Bike Trip - or
Tasmania Memories

Memories from the Trail
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:15:28 -0700

What is a day like bicycling in Tasmania? We would get up around 6:30-7:00am. All would congregate in Jude's room for she had the food and the Eski (cooler) We would make tea and coffee, cereal, yogurt, bread with peanut butter, fruit and juice. Once we had pancakes, fried tomatoes, and sausage on the barbie. Now it's time to load the Average White Van with the
swag, check out of the rooms and organize the bikes and apply a layer of sun block. Sometimes our mornings were cool and we would wear legs, arms and vests.Judy would cruise about 10 miles ahead scoping out points of interest. We would sometimes come upon her taking photos. Judy paints using the medium of water color. She gets many ideas from her photography.

Most of our van stops were about food and water. the first day of riding, we ate Judy out of the van. All of her 10 tins of baked goods were eaten in 1 stop. She called it a food fest. She did not realize the calories involved for 6 people. Judy was on it after that. We had an amazing food stop in Derby for scones, jam, and coddled cream. One day we were craving scones and jam. Judy shows up with fresh picked strawberries and and a Boston Bun (date fruit bread with butter cream icing).

Judy led us to several vineyards, a Lavender Farm, and Kate's Berry Farm. We learned later Kate had been Ken a year earlier. we would have a road side picnic with sandwiches, fruit, and what we called Tasmanian Power Bars (Judy's fruit cake).None of the colored fruit. it had figs, dates, apricots, and nuts. Judy had a small propane burner for our spot of tea to make lunch complete.

Sometimes if hunger called, we would stop at a bakery. This is Australia's version of a fast food stop. There were wonderful pastries, however the main attraction was meat pies servedpiping hot. Potato, steak, and oh my Wallaby. Never tried that one. Clive maintained they were road kill.

Judy would go a head to our destination and sort our rooms. Her room would always be the party room for cocktails and entrees (appetizers in Tassie). Once she had a 3 1/2 pound lobster. It was difficult to be hungry for dinner. We sometimes would stop in fish shops along the way and pick up seafood.Smoked salmon, lobster. If we got into a destination early we would partake in a few additional activities. The guys golfed with barely a full set of 30 year old clubs between 4. They had a hoot. The girls went shopping, we all flew kites (any opportunity to let out the child within) and a few dips in the ocean. Sometimes we did chores like washing, cleaning bikes, restocking food supplies and sun block. As you can tell, our riding evolved around a lot of food. I will pick another topic for my next note.
No worries!
Love Sue and Bob

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