Australia by Bicycle - page 13
Forty days' bike tour across Australia, by Jan Boonstra.
The Oodnadatta track
The road was bad............the road was good
To conquer Australia overland by bicycle may be quite an achievement, but I had still an unsatisfactory feeling. The distance was large enough, but the riding is very easy along the Stuart Highway, which has a tarmac sealing over the full length. After the first two weeks I longed for some more adventure and I decided to go along the Oodnadatta Track: about 600 kilometers of track through the desert. I bought two heavy tires in Alice Springs but my bike, a simple road bike, wasn't actually suitable for the task. Anyway, I was full of excitement when I started in Marla on June 1st.
Interesting links referring to the region:
There is also a complete daily log of this tour, but only in Dutch.
