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Coolah Rodeo Grounds made an excellent camp after the 55km ride from Premer on a very chilly day .\u00a0 We three crew made an executive decision it was way too cold to strip and have a shower so we opted instead to stay close to the fire!\u00a0 Joe made a ripper campfire and proceeded to cook garlic bread in the coals followed by sausages and potatoes then straight into our swags in the truck. \u00a0Coolah is home to the Black Stump which in the 1800\u2019s became a demarcation line for land thus the term \u2018Beyond the Black Stump\u2019.<\/p>\n
Hotondo Homes Kempsey have offered to pay $10 into the Hannah Rose Melanoma Research Fund each time we take a photo of the \u2018Hugo\u2019 the Hotondo Mascot \u00a0bear, and Hotondo Australia Head Office will match it dollar for dollar.\u00a0 So Joe and I took photos of Hugo at the golden guitar in Tamworth and also on the Bicentennial National Trail crossing the Great Dividing Range, then also at Coolah on the Black Stump. Hugo travels in the front of the truck with Joe and I and he\u2019s become a real part of the ride4acure Crew.\u00a0 Hugo took a dive off the Black Stump the other day and both Joe and I realised he\u2019d become a fixture with the ride4acure crew when we found ourselves talking to him and making sure he was ok!<\/p>\n
After the Premer to Coolah Esther rode 80kms to Gulgong in the freezing cold arriving in Gulgong about 5.30pm.\u00a0 We camped at the rodeo grounds and a friend I\u2019d met in Sydney at a Cancer Council MP Liaison Training last year Lloyd Coleman and his friend Margie (a school teacher who knew both my brother Joe Luxford and his wife Trish when they lived in Mudgee in the 80\u2019s),\u00a0 generously came and picked us up and took us out for a counter meal at a local hotel. Lloyd works at Ulan mine just out of Mudgee, a mine my brother Joe had a lot to do with back in the 80\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0 My sister Kate also had a connection with Gulgong having co-owned the \u2018Saints and Sinners\u2019 Caf\u00e9 in the 80\u2019s.\u00a0 Esther rode through the main street aptly named \u2018Mayne Street\u2019 and\u00a0 Joe took a few photo\u2019s.<\/p>\n
It was hard riding for Esther and Lofty as there was no \u2018shoulder\u2019 on the road and very rough rocky ground forcing her to ride on the bitumen from Gulgong out to the 12 Mile Road at Goolma (over 20kms) where she got to ride on dirt for a further 20 odd kms to get to Glenwood where we\u2019re staying with Pip and Norm Smith (SRS Merino Breeders.-soft rolling skin a new breed of merino with less wrinkles than traditional breeds).\u00a0 It was here at Wellington we came in spring 2010 and the SRS Merino Breeders Ram Sale donated 10% from the sale of the top 8 rams sold on the day to the Hannah Rose Melanoma Research Fund.<\/p>\n
Today Sunday 15th<\/sup> we\u2019re having a catch up day, doing paperwork; sorting photo\u2019s and files etc.\u00a0 Our truck has been completely repacked, yet again.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing how much we don\u2019t need!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coolah Rodeo Grounds made an excellent camp after the 55km ride from Premer on a very chilly day .\u00a0 We three crew made an executive decision it was way too cold to strip and have a shower so we opted instead to stay close to the fire!\u00a0 Joe made a ripper campfire and proceeded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ride4acure.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}