{"id":30036,"date":"2026-10-02T00:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bikertrash-source:past\/aussie.html"},"modified":"2026-10-08T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:11:00","slug":"australian-adventure-archive-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/?p=30036","title":{"rendered":"Australian Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Originally published:<\/strong> 2002<br><strong>Original publication:<\/strong> BikerTrash.com<br><strong>Original byline:<\/strong> Not confirmed<\/p> <p><b>Australia &#8211; New Zealand Edition<\/b><\/p> <p><i>&#8221; . . .sleeping under the stars that night next to the bike (tent went home) I was awoken by gale force winds and threatening rain. Quickly packing up, with the sky rapidly blackening being lit up only by short flashes of lightning, and the wind whipping up sticks and leaves, I headed to sleep in the laundry till the storm passed. But after an hour of threatening it had passed without a drop. The ground was getting harder after three nights on a half inch bedroll and I awoke early to depart early, travelling in the dark for the first hour. Not a wise thing to do out here, being a nocturnal animals paradise, the skippies (kangaroos) and emus particularly like the green pickings by the roadside.&#8221;<\/i> <br> &#8212;Peter &amp; Kay Forwood<\/p> <p>More from Australia, New Zealand . . .<\/p> <b>Country<\/b> <b>Travelers<\/b> Australia <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozemail.com.au\/~forwoodk\/austral1.html\">Forwoods<\/a><\/p> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonsunlimited.com\/Australi.htm\">Grant &amp; Susan Johnson<\/a><\/p> Malaysia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozemail.com.au\/~forwoodk\/malaysi1.html\">Forwoods<\/a> New Zealand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonsunlimited.com\/NewZeala.htm\">Grant &amp; Susan Johnson<\/a> <hr><p><small>Archive notice: This article is preserved from the original BikerTrash.com archive. It reflects information available at the time of publication. Please verify dates, locations, prices, links, and other details before relying on them.<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published: 2002Original publication: BikerTrash.comOriginal byline: Not confirmed Australia &#8211; New Zealand Edition &#8221; . . .sleeping under the stars that night next to the bike (tent went home) I was awoken by gale force winds and threatening rain. Quickly packing up, with the sky rapidly blackening being lit up only by short flashes of &#8230; <a title=\"Australian Adventure\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/?p=30036\" aria-label=\"Read more about Australian Adventure\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[446],"class_list":["post-30036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","tag-pl004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900594,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036\/revisions\/900594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclesontheroadagain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}