Wednesday April, 16, 2014
My apologies for being so far behind in updating the blog. We are now in sydney and I will endeavor over the next few days to get it completely up to date.
Sunday April 7, 2014
Today was definitely a “Road Angel” day. Susan (the owner of the motel) was the first road angel.
We had breakfast in our room and went over to see Susan (the owner of the motel) at 9:00 a.m. She had tried to call the bike shop in Merimbula to see if they were open, no answer. Susan went above and beyond to get me a tire that I can use. A friend of her husband’s collects “stuff” from the tip and he thought he might be able to get a tire for me. It turned out that he did have a spare tire which looked remarkably good. We put it on and I did a test ride around the parking lot. I was a little concerned how long it would last and was still interested in taking the bus to Merimbula.
Susan called the bus company for me to see if we could get the bikes on the bus. It was half full, so the chances were 50/50 that we could get the bikes on the bus, but depended on the bus driver. Susan allowed us to stay in the room until after 12:00 and didn’t charge us any extra for a late check-out.
If you are ever in Cann River and need a place to stay – stay at the Cann River Motel. It is reasonably priced, clean and Susan is awesome.
Our second “Road Angel” was the cook from the local café he had offered to drive over to his friend’s place who ran a bike hire business, he thought he might have a spare tire for me. We didn’t need to take him up on his offer as Susan had already come through with a tire.
The third “Road Angels’ were Carmel and Mark. We were having lunch, while waiting for the bus, when Ralf mentioned to one of the staff from the café that I had a problem with my bike and we were waiting for the bus and hopefully we would be able to get on it to Merimbula. Carmel overheard the conversation and came over to us and offered to take us to Merimbula. They had a camper that we could strap the bikes on top. We strapped the bikes on to the camper and off we went. They were heading to Merimbula and would not take any money to contribute for the petrol. When we arrived in Merimbula Mark drove us to the camp site and then showed us where the bike shop was. Mark and Carmel are an awesome couple. They were farmers and had also taken a few years away from their farm to travel around Australia. They had worked in Cairns on a station that farmed Bramen cows, they had volunteered to help out in South Australia after the fires. A really nice couple, I hope we meet them again.
The disadvantage of taking the lift is that we didn’t get the chance to take any pictures today. There was some lovely scenery and we crossed over from South Australia into New South Wales.