What to do on a special day? For Marty Blake the choice was easy: ride, clock up some kilometres and not really worry too much about the destination.
The idea was to tag along west with some lucky mongrels heading into the desert, see them on their way from Narrabri, then skip through some Pilliga bush and come back over Mt Kaputar and back to the work which prevented me joining the desert trip in the first place.
The departure was set for the Father’s Day weekend, and that proved a challenge with other riders. Feeble excuses like, “I’m going riding in the Himalayas,” the ever reliable, “I fell off my bike and I’m a bit sore,” to the unbelievable, “Work commitments,” meant it wasn’t easy to find a riding companion.