Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
Four days of riding my bike with little else to think about. Days warmed with spring sunshine and draped with landscapes that stretch the eye to where earth and sky shimmer as one. Night skies aglow with moonlight carrying the sounds of weary bodies sleeping. Sleep, Eat, Ride, Eat, and Repeat. This was my first ‘Cycle Queensland’ Adventure Tour and it ensured my spring began with a most enjoyable ride. Cycle Queensland… Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Travel Tags: Bicycle Queensland, Cold, Currumbin, Elevation, Goals, Gold Coast, Hills, inspiration, Murwillumbah, Queensland, Stanthorpe, Tomewin, tour notes, Touring, Tweed Valley, Wollumbin
For three months, it had been just a concept, an idea, an aspiration: “I’m going to ride the GreatVic”. I knew very little about what this ride would be like. Yes, I’d read the Bicycle Network website which has heaps of useful information. It prepared me well. But it was information and still a concept; something ‘out there’ beyond where I was. Now the ride is over and my GreatVic is real…. Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Travel Tags: Active Travel, Adapting, Adventure, Apollo Bay, Australia, Bicycles, Camping, Celebration, Challenges, Cold, Cycling, Cyclists, events, Exhilarating, Festival, Fun, Geelong, Grampians, Great Ocean Road, Great Otway, Hills, Holidays, inspiration, Landscape, National Park, Ocean, Photography, RACV, Resilience, success, Summer, Touring, Tourism, Twelve Apostles, Victoria, Weather
With campervan packed and bikes loaded on the back, we went travelling old roads with new eyes. This is the fourth story from my recent road trip in South East Queensland. It was a Monday morning and we rode inland along Bargara Road. Week days bring out the life of a town. You see its workings more clearly – who does what and when, how things get done. Of course, it’s only a glimpse but sometimes… Read More
Category: Experiment, Travel Tags: Active Travel, Australia, Bargara, Beach, bike-riders, Bundaberg, Canefields, Cold, Coral Coast, Decisions, Drums, Facebook, Happiness, Holiday, Holidays, inspiration, interesting people, lifestyle change, Making choices, Mon Repos, Nature Reserve, Neighbourhood, Personal Change, Queensland, Sunshine, Transformation, Turtles, Values, Well-being, Winter
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
a bike for all seasons