
Gail Rehbein exerts copyright over the stories and photographs on this site (2014-2023).
My mother always said things come in threes. Some might call it superstition or coincidence or the result of energy following the mind’s focus. But more often than not, things in threes seemed to happen. And so it did when I arrived at Hervey Bay, the third stop in our road trip. Over the ten days, we’d visited the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail near Esk. Around Bargara, we’d seen the sugar cane locos shuffling around the… Read More
Category: Experiment, Travel, Weather Tags: Active Travel, Adventure, Australia, bike-riders, Cycleways, Exhilarating, Fishermen, Fun, GoPro, Hervey Bay, History, Holiday, Holidays, inspiration, interesting people, Jetty, Ocean, Queensland, Railway, Touring, Tourism, Trains, Video, Winter
At the end of November, I’m doing something that I’ve never done before. Not that doing something different is unusual for me. I did my first yoga headstand at 50! But my yoga headstand lasted less than a minute. My new adventure at the end of November will take me nine days. You see, I’m riding the 9-day RACV Great Victorian Bike Ride. This rolling bike festival will take me travelling by… Read More
Category: Bike culture, Experiment, Travel Tags: #GreatVic, Active Travel, Adventure, Australia, bike-riders, Camping, Cyclists, events, Festival, Geelong, Grampians, Great Ocean Road, Holiday, Holidays, inspiration, Landscape, lifestyle change, Ocean, RACV, Surfing, Touring, Training, Twelve Apostles, Victoria
At latitude 28.0° S, longitude 153.4° E, Easter marks the last hurrah for summer. It seems not to matter whether Easter falls early or late, many see it as the last beach holiday, a close to swimming, sandy feet and salty hair. Yet with the water temperature dipping to 19°C in the depths of winter while the minimum atmospheric temperature averages 12°C, Easter doesn’t mark the end of beach time, swim time or… Read More
Category: Experiment, Weather Tags: Australia, Autumn, Beach, Easter, Family, Fun, Gold Coast, Holidays, Ocean, Queensland, Sunshine, Surfing, Swimming, Temperature, Water, Weather, Well-being, Wind
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