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Darkan to Collie, day 10, Thursday 24 October 1996. The morning was cool, clear and sunny with light S-SE winds as it had been in 1987 when I left Darkan, but there was no frost. The winds would help me a bit towards Collie because the road runs WSW for the first half of the journey, then WNW for the rest. This was to be one of those days when a journey that should have been straightforward and not hard became a labour. It happens sometimes. At other times a journey that should have been hard just gets done with little pain.

I left the hotel at 7:59 after pouring oil into the cluster in an attempt to cure the slipping-ratchet problem.  ... Read more