| Re: Canberra Riding
Marty wrote:
> "steve" <stephen.colbourne@comsuper.gov.au> wrote in message
> news:1167975892.089217.302320@s80g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> > For a drink after your ride in Canberra try the Wig and Pen Pub which
> > brews its own beer on the premises. Probably one of the best beers in
> > the world ( and I ' m from England) is the Aviator Dupple Bock they
> > sell there in October.
> >
> > Be careful if you get lost around Canberra as there is not much
> > civilisation south of it for the next 600km.
> >
> > There is a new MTB centre at Stromlo which is bidding to hold the 2009
> > worlds.
> >
>
> Getting dangerously lost was really not possible. That huge comms tower was
> always somewhere within view. So while I had my bearings I couldn't quite
> find the trails I needed to get back to where I wanted to be.
>
> Someone once asked Danial Boone if he'd ever been lost and his answer was
> something like "no, but I was a might confused as to where I was for a few
> weeks". Now THAT'S lost.
>
> Can't wait to get back and do it again. I'll check out that pub as well.
>
> Marty
The bunch I used to run around with called it "temporarily
disoriented".
JD
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