Still in Longreach - Grrrrrr! A beautiful sunny morning, no tent to pack up and only 178km to ride, what could go wrong? 47km out of Longreach and we had just overtaken a very long Road Train with Trish leading when she started flapping her arm in the air in frustration and slowed dramatically. With the Road train looming up behind we managed to get most of the way off the road before the Road Train thundered past. By this stage I had worked out that all the...

Longreach sightseeing on Friday 13th July2012 In the morning we visited the School of Distance Education, or "the School of the Air" at Longreach in outback Queensland. This place looks like a normal primary school complex on the edge of town, only it is so quiet; no sounds of any children can be heard! They are all scattered around on outback cattle stations and other remote places, doing home schooling. There were 2 tour sessions daily and both were fully ...