Today is the final day of the journey started 10 days ago. It began as usual early in the day with a steep climb overlooking Seven Mile Beach and Geroa.
The road continued through Gerringong and turned into a full blown Motorway when it merged with the Princes Highway. With wide shoulders and a marked cycle lane the road began a long climb to the the top of a ridge approaching Kiama, where it suddenly reverted to a narrow shouldered blind curved speedway. We took the first exit we could to take us to Kiama, breakfast and, of course, the blowhole.
Unexpectedly on particularly nice downhill run and a slight bump over a piece of plasterboard, the rear end of my machine began to shimmy. Upon bringing the beast under control and stopping I found my rear tyre was flat. This was the only flat over the 400km trip. I inspected the tyre and tube and it appears that the tube must have been pinched when I fitted the tires in the first place as there were no abovious signs of puncture anywhere on the tyre itself.
We were soon back on the road, when Mark spotted this sign.
We tried to use any cycle paths of the main road where we could but eventually we found that they just didn't connect together as expected so we rejoined the motorway to reach Unanderra, lunch, and the end all a fantastic, if at times challenging, road trip on three wheels.
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