Day 73. Good TV coverage here means I have seen the Cross country and jumping parts of the 3 day event at the Olympics. Watched Andrew Hoy again, reminding me of his wonderful ride in 2000 to win us the Gold, with me in the stand. There was a whole grandstand of empty seats there too, so nothing much has changed in seat allocation since then. Olympic 'family/sponsers' .... whatever ..... are given too many seats! Looked out for friends Jo and Terry who are there ...

Day 71 and 72. Into the 11th week now on the road. We left freezing Peterborough and arrived in sunny warmer Broken Hill early afternoon. Even managed a t-shirt for a while. My grandfather was a miner here and my grandmother a barmaid in the first decade of the 20th century. It was the second largest town in NSW then. Tuesday we visited the Daydream Mine outside Silverton. The mine has been active 3 times since 1882. It is much as it was in 1882, as far as we co...