In honour of our 20th anniversary (well, that's what we're telling the
babysitters anyway), we're doing a tandem tour sans kids in July!

We're hitting the grandparents in Sydney up for 4 nights childminding.(They
don't realise it's that many nights yet.. maybe we'd be better telling them
three nights, then ringing in to say 'oh damn, we're not going to make it back'.
[We're down in Sydney that first weekend of the school hols for netball State
Age, then the day after that, we're pulling the disappearing act.

Anyway proposed route is.. ex-Sydney, specifically Pennant Hills. Going to ride
to Bobbin Head and catch ferry service to Patonga, then head to Terrigal for the
first night. Next day to Newcastle. Then we're heading across to Wollombi, and
then the last night we plan to get to Wiseman's Ferry. Hopefully will still have
the energy and desire to head back up to Central Mangrove, then back down the
Old Pacific Hwy, through Brooklyn, and back to Penno. There's always the train
if we fall short!

Total around 550km I think.

Front panniers ordered (I think he's got that covered), and credit card primed.
Seeing it's school holidays, going to book the accommodation. Got Wollombi
sorted - that's the hardest one by the looks of it, particularly ensuring we can
find dinner! Would be nice to be a bit less structured, but them's are breaks
when you have a small window of opportunity.


In other Schmidt cycling news, Marc, Zoe and I went on a 110km ride with the
Bentleys and a bunch of others from Grafton, up to Maclean, and basically round
Woodford Island, via Brushgrove pub. Pretty flat. Older two girls declined to
come, so Marc rode the Cannondale tandem with Zoe, and I rode my half bike.
Martin and Di were talking about Liz and Dave coming up and doing that ride
sometime soon, so Marc and I would probably try to wangle doing it too. Mind
you, this just before the flooding up there - a few days later much of where we
rode would have been under water!

How is everyone, btw? Been a bit quiet on here lately!