SMALL PACKAGE ADVENTURE

First of all, where do you call home and what do you do for work?

I call Melbourne home. [I’m] currently working part-time as an Army reservist and fulltime as a postgraduate law student at the University of Melbourne.

How long have you been riding bikes?

Unlike other people who go on adventure rides and have been riding since childhood, I haven’t been riding very long. I actually only began riding six months prior to my current trip, [in] August 2015!

Can you broadly describe the ride you’re on?

After doing a lap of Tasmania, I rode from Melbourne to Adelaide, up to Uluru, then to Darwin. From Darwin I headed across to Townsville, up to Cooktown (I couldn’t go further due to time constraints and wet season) then back down the east coast to Melbourne. This was done during summer/ wet season from December-January and was an unfavourable time to travel but I had to do so before university started. This big portion was 14,000km. I spent $1500, slept by my bike most nights and ate very little food, losing 10kg bodyweight. I travelled alone the whole way except for a few days, which I spent at friends’ places around the country.

Since coming back [to Victoria], I’ve done some 8000km of adventuring around Victoria — everything from urban exploration to longer rides like