{"id":51,"date":"2007-03-14T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2014-08-30T06:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T11:39:05","slug":"great-ocean-road-day-1-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"GOR Great Ocean Road – Day 1: MOUNTAINS (Adelaide to Langhorne Creek, SA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re off, headed for Melbourne, 1000K\/660 miles away, at about 8:45 am \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jim, Patricia and I \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with Irena and Marty driving the jeep, through NE Adelaide (at sea level), and then up into the Mount Lofty Range. \"highest<\/a>As we rode (me sometimes as slow as 2mph!), I thought of my cousin Bob, who is a road cyclist and mountain biker, and often rides up into the front range outside of Denver, just for fun! Pat had badly stubbed her toe (maybe even broken it) the previous morning, and it was all black and blue and swollen; but she was determined to ride up the mountains, and luckily, it was much better riding than walking. <\/p>\n

It was \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbloody hard work\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as Jim would say\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6as usual, I was at the back, sweeping the rear, but kept on going none-the-less \ud83d\ude42 We rode 49.25 miles yesterday, climbed well over 2000 feet, at an average speed of 11.3 mph \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not bad considering that over 18 of those miles were climbing uphill, with an average 8% grade! This was already the highest point of our entire 12-day tour at about 700 meters. (That’s the view from Mount Lofty on the right.) \"Mount<\/a>One of the prettiests parts of the ride was just over the highest part of the mountains, through the alpine town of Aldgate, nestled in crooked ravines under lots of trees. The long downhills later were fun \u00e2\u20ac\u201c long sweeping gentle curves going about 30mph (Jim even more), past beautiful stands of some kind of red and grey gum trees, cows, horses, sheep, even llamas, and through beautiful almost alpine-like towns. <\/p>\n

We stopped for lunch at an organic market and had the most delicious meat and veggie pies I have ever tasted. Then even though Irena has a bum knee right now from a late season skiing accident, she couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t resist the pressure and joined us for the last 12 miles or so while Marty drove on. \"Irena\"<\/a>This last bit took us into the oldest commercial wine country in Australia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Langhorne Creek, where we stayed at a beautiful B&B\/winery called Peachabella. It was a huge old converted house, with a large bedroom at each end, and a huge living room-dining room-kitchen between, with a large bathroom. Marty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s uncle Ian and his fianc\u00c3\u00a9 Cathy drove over the mountains and joined us for dinner \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a gourmet meal from the owner’s daughter, a chef trained at the French Culinary Institute in NY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and they took Marty back home to Adelaide. What a great first day of our ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re off, headed for Melbourne, 1000K\/660 miles away, at about 8:45 am \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jim, Patricia and I \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with Irena and Marty driving the jeep, through NE Adelaide (at sea level), and then up into the Mount Lofty Range. As we rode (me sometimes as slow as 2mph!), I thought of my cousin Bob, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-2007","category-cycling","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindystravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}