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Photos are up, but not yet captioned.  I think by about day 5 I got sick of taking photos because the scenery was pretty much all the same.  I didn't even take a photo of the finish line!  LMAO!

Still a bit tired; I'll post details about the ride later.  Right now, I'm doing a mountainload of laundry so I've got some clean riding clothes.  What does it say about me that I just finished riding almost 600Km and all I want to do is get back on the bike? 

For now, enjoy the photos.  A couple notable ones are:  the chick in the red shirt in pics 3 and 4 is my mum.  The two pics below her are of BestMate's exploded tyre (he ran over a rock or something, the tyre went KA-BOOM! and the rock flew up into my face - ouch).  The rest of the pics are mostly countryside (very pretty) and the occasional oddity.  About halfway down are a couple photos of some local's front yard - full of garden gnome art!  Enjoy the irony of tents pitched next to the "no camping" signs!  There's some photos of my gliding experience too.  Yes, that's a parachute I'm wearing!  There's some pics there of BestMate in his tiny, eeny-weeny tent.  And towards the bottom, there's some photos of me barely awake in our tent.  Yes, I have very bad hair.  Helmet head.  The last couple photos are of some local's front yard.  Yes, that's a Santa Claus.  And Christmas decorations.  In September.  I get the impression they're a year-round attraction.

Anyway.. I'll caption all the photos later.  Enjoy!