Missing in Action

I've been noticeably missing in action most of this year, with only 1 lonely post so far. My slackest effort to date. But I do have some good reasons excuses for this.

I hadn't even ridden my motorcycle until April this year, pretty sad eh? I was meant to go on a Adv bike tour with my brother in February but I had a nasty blister under my arm that I had to have an emergency Operation on a Sunday of all days, only 5 days before the ride. Unfortunately for me this left me with an open wound under my arm that needed packing and redressing for the next week. I couldn't really use my arm much and I wouldn't be able to ride a bike, especially adventure riding and sweating profusely in my armpit which I'm sure would further exacerbate the wound.

So I visited with my brother and stayed at the Wisemans Ferry pub for beers and then photographed the Aussie Hike or Bike crew leaving on their 4 day adventure. I was so wishing I could have gone. Oh well, there's nothing I could have done about it.

So I went home and moped about the place for a few days, looking at facebook posts of the ride, very envious. I got onto Aussie Hike or Bike and have arranged to do their Sydney to Melbourne tour in November this year, so at least I've got that to look forward to.

Since I busted my collarbone last October I've not been doing to much, I've gotten back out on the MTB and got my exercise routine happening again.

I took my daughter to the dawn service in Windsor, I was surprised there must have been 6-8000 people there it was huge for a small place. We then went back to the Windsor RSL for breakfast and beer.

Then it was a quick trip up to Wilberforce for the 9am service which also consisted of a F-35 Lightning II flyby. Those things are so awesome. My daughter was loving it as was I.

In January I decided on buying a DJI Action5 camera to play around with. After editing up a bunch of footage from our Flinders Ranges trip last year I decided I'd had a crack at doing some youtube vlogging with my channel. Its early days. It took me 3 months to learn how to use Davinci Resolve and I'm still a learning noob at it. So many things you have to learn. If I'd known at the start how much effort it was going to be I would have given up already. So much more effort required than any blog posts. Yes you did warn me Warren, but I am a slow learner.....

So I've got the first of our Flinders Ranges Adventure ride video up on my Channel which I've just rebooted. That's probably the main reason I haven't been busy on my blog. Let's see how I go with a blog and a YouTube channel, I wonder if I could fit a few marathons in there, I don't think I've quite got enough on already....