Travel and Final Preparation for cycling the Munda Biddi trail



The day has finally arrived. The bike was packed in its bike box and I'm on my way to Perth to cycle 1,000km along the Munda Biddi trail from Perth to Albany.   I plan to take a few weeks enjoying the experience and will try and post every day or so along the trail. 

 

Today involved flying to Perth and catching a cab to my motel in the suburb of Midland where I spent the afternoon reassembling my bike and getting all the gear stowed away. 

I had three bags for the flight to Perth:

- Bike box with bike and a fair amount of gear (28kg), 

- Corona beer carton filled with extra gear, no beer (6kg) 

- My yellow dry-sack bag for carry-on the plane with yet more gear.

I had some comfort when I spotted the bike box on the tarmac about to be loaded onto the plane. 

The luggage arrived safely in Perth and I found a cab large enough to take the bike box to the motel in Midland. 

The main reason for going to Midland was to purchase a gas canister for my hiking stove (because you can't take these gas canisters on the plane).  

After that last important piece of gear was packed away it was then time to relax in my motel room and get ready for an early start on my Munda Biddi journey.

Here is my bike all loaded up. Water bottles were missing from this photo but I'll have 3 on the bike tomorrow.