March 31st, 2011
Glenrowan to Seymour
Distance: 136km
Total distance: 1145km
I had one of the best sleep last night. Felt so energetic and refreshed! It was very cold outside so I took my time getting ready in the motel and left only at 8am. I entered the Hume Freeway within the first 2km of riding. Thanks to the relatively flat road, I found myself riding much faster than usual, maintaining an average speed of 18kmh. Yeah, that’s pretty fast for me riding on a loaded trike. The first 70km went by quickly. Nothing much to report since there wasn’t much to see or do on a freeway. Stopped at a service centre near Euroa for a hamburger lunch.
About 10km after Euroa, the freeway becomes hilly, with long stretches of uphills and downhills, thus effectively reducing my speed. There was a strong crosswind as well, and it was probably due to strong wind I lost my carp streamer! There goes my false identifier as a Japanese traveller. The next 50km took me much longer than expected, and by the time I arrive at the caravan park in Seymour, it was starting to get dark. I checked into a self-contained cabin since I wanted to start my day early the next day. Bought my dinner and breakfast for tomorrow at the town centre. I was tempted to cook since there’s a kitchen in my cabin but was feeling too hungry and tired to move around much.
The cabin feels so warm and comfortable, it got me thinking about how I will be coping with camping in the colder season later in the tour. This is the third consecutive day I did a 100+km ride, I am now wondering if I can still manage another 100+km ride tomorrow. If the freeway continues to be hilly like the last 50km today, I may not reach Melbourne before dusk. Enough of negativity, for god’s sake I’ve just ridden the longest distance in my life today! Yeah!
The sign refers to gliders that may or may not be overhead. Don’t get distracted by them!
Thanks for the photos, they’re great. Keep them coming!
Hi Campbell, I was thinking more of airplanes than gliders, but now it makes more sense! Thanks for reading too, hope you enjoy it 🙂
Hi! Melvyn,
I think those road bumps on the inner lane where you are riding is meant for could be sleepy drivers.. to shake them up from their sleep just in case they are too close to the edge of the road. perhaps you will decided to have shock absorbers installed on your trike!! 😀
That’s the purpose of rumble strips. If you look closely on the white line that separates the emergency lane and the drive lane, there’s tiny bumps on it throughout. The road bumps though, I suspect is to prevent drivers from using the emergency lane as an alternative lane when traffic is heavy, I could be wrong though. Anyway, bicycles will have no problem escaping these bumps with their narrow single track but not so much for trikes.