Last thursday a coworker from my old workplace sent me a message saying "Going for a ride with Ulysses leaving the Alma 10am to Balhanna bakery bout 11am interested??" so I thought okay. Group rides aren't really my thing but it wasn't that great a distance so I went.
We'd arranged to meet at the Aldinga OTR and I parked at the same spot I ran into Chris J before the Sellicks Hill RTE.
We then made our way to the starting point at the Alma Hotel in Willunga.
I was talking to someone else about groups we were members of and mentioned I was with the ST owners club. His response was "what's an ST?" and just as he said it I heard that distinct sound, turned around and said "that". It was this blue 1100. So I had a chat to them too. They've had it six months and named it Tilly. They hadn't heard of Ozstoc so I gave them a card.
Here he is again behind me when we stopped to regroup in Meadows. I never thought to mention I was wearing an Ozstoc National Rally shirt underneath that jacket. Who wants to guess what year?
We stopped in Balhannah for coffee/morning tea. I thought this would be our destination at the start of play, but at the pre-ride talk I heard we were going here for morning tea and then Mannum for lunch, not just Mannum, but the Pretoria Hotel in Mannum, venue for yesterday's RTE.
I didn't expect to be having lunch in the same venue on two consecutive days. This time we were in a room.
This is the course we took to get there. No dirt roads for me today.
I did mention my disappointment with the new Spotwalla and Bubbler yesterday. Today's experience wasn't any better. I opened it at Aldinga to find it had no points recorded to display. It should have.
So I logged into the old Spotwalla to create a trip for today. I got a prompt saying "why are you logging in here? Almost everyone has moved to the new Spotwalla", but I could close it and create a trip and opened the old Bubbler as well. Not only did it record stuff after that, it shows points going to Aldinga before that. That said, I still think it's missed points coming home which the new Spotwalla got. Go figure.