Jinji Sadan

After the great desert crossing I had the privilege to meet my good friend mocha that came especially to the uluru (the amazing rock) in the middle of central Australia.

lets the ride begin

We talked about this ride for years and planned it for months and now the talking stooped and was time to action.

after an emotional meeting we started to ride from the airport in yulara to the amazing rock.

The first day past really quickly and we found a nice place to camp middle of nowhere only us with the view of the rock.

This place is THE most famous landscape in this continent and now I know why.

around uluru

Like a beautiful women this place is amazing from every angle in any time she look amazing. Its nice to see that my eyes still excited from landscapes after almost 4 years in many places and together with mocha I had the time also to share it, we went to do a small tour around the rock and we felt really close to this mystical place.

the face on the rock

We said “bye bye” to the rock and hello to the journey .

Mocha is a keen cyclists but nothing can prepare you for the real deal, the journey with weigh on your bike and sleeping in a tent in no where.

“i don’t know how you did it in Africa!!!”mocha told me the second night.

long road...

tell you the truth it wasn’t a pretty ride after the rock, for days and days we cycled and saw nothing and nothing of a vast land, mocha knew that this ride will not be the most interesting ride in the world and to come here and complain about the empty of this place is like going to the Sahara desert and complain about the sun over there.

Our mood wasn’t that great on the ride but we knew how to laugh about everything and enjoying cooking together and laugh about the ride and the wind in our faces.

In one place we went to a camping ground and saw that its full of mouses that coming from everywhere, I took the bread (7$ bread- the cost of no where…) to my tent and we went to sleep, in the middle of the night mocha wake me up:”jinji, they eating your tent!” the mouses got to my tent and to my bread!!!

I wake up and saw my tent full of mouses so I open the tent and moved them away.. we lough about this moment and we went to sleep again.

After an hour of no sleep I felt small feet walking on me INSIDE my sleeping tent…

I don’t care how much I loved Micky mouse I wanted to kill this mouse and if we were back in Africa I will eat him for breakfast with eggs!!!

that’s was a night that you pray to the sun to come out and to finish this nightmare of mouses…

after the first week of nothing but emptiness mocha back start to be really hurting him and he had problems even to go back on the bike after resting.

I saw the pain in his face and even if he is a strong man I felt sorry for him, we needed to take a day rest to see what time will tell us and was happy to meet a cyclists that going the other way north,Kerry, that she is cycling for her graduation in Darwin , crossing the continent really fast, funny women that help mocha a lot with the hurting back and after a good massage in the tent he was ready to go with only small pains.

thank god for kerry

I was happy to be back with him to the road but he took the right chose to finish out journey when we got to the small city of cobber pedy where we were happy to see houses and supermarkets after almost 2 weeks.

For me every day in the journey is”another day in the office” but I need to remember that for most of the people its will be really hard life to cycle in my normal life. A hurting back, missing the amazing wife and the children was hard for him and also the nature wasn’t rewarding with a head wind that can get to your mind.

The emptiness will get to your mind.

I was happy to share with him my journey and to talk with him about the future I also learned that I need to improve my social skills and after you use to do things alone doing it with a friend is harder. I need to improve many things maybe I tough journey made me a tough person.

Now I am alone again getting ready to the next 2 weeks before I will get to Adelaide in the south coast of Australia and start to prepare one of the biggest challenges that I ever had: a blind women,Orly Tall, will come and we going to cycle together to the city of Melbourne for 2 weeks. Another story full of amazing moments I bet.

It was amazing time with him time of knowledge and wisdom but also time of digging in the mind with the challenges that I will have in the future.

At list I know that I have good friend to guide me.

happy for mocha that he is back to his home sweet home and will not sleep in a tent for a while…

we did it! we got to some where!!!

Love you all

roei “jinji” sadan

cobber pedy

south Australia

I am full of adrenalin, full of excitement from the road and feel got much power from the place that I just been.

The last 2 days were “something to talk about” in the beginning it was cloudy and the heavy rain got to my mind but as the Beatles said :”here come the sun” so its alright…

the rainbow that came from the ocean made me forget the rain and was happy to see that the day is going to be clear.

the rainbow gate

If there is something extreme In the weather here is THE SUN ,she is so strong that you feel that your brain is cooked inside the head and even with all the sunscreen that I put with the long sleeve shirt in the end of the day you feel that you got beaten from the sun, I felt like this only in the high Himalayas or the high Andes. The sun here is notorious and pleas make sure that you going to put suncream before going to face the sun here.

And after I finished with the “education corner” of this post I can move on to the next one.

are you ready?

Me and etamar entered to the last leg of our journey,the far north, and there is only one place that I could think of ending crossing this country. Cape rienga is the place where the Tasmanian sea and the pacific ocean meets and native (the Maoris) believe the its the place where the spirits of the Maoris dead departure from new zeal and and beginning there long journey to there ancestral homeland.

The road to this place took us cycling on the “90 mile beach” and for the first time I cycled on a hard sand beach, really close to the waves and the fishes. One side is the sea the other is the sand dunes.

Many fisherman are seating on the road and we helped one of them to get the net out and we earned a really big fish to our dinner that day.

dinner is coming

I my journey I saw almost everything and there is not many things that will surprise me but when I saw a small pinguiun running between my wheels I thought that it cant be true…

he looked lost so I took him back to the sea and said goodbye.

a friend from the sea

We cycled 50km on the beach and we camped on it and could not believe the things that we saw in one day. We looked on the photos in the camera and start to lough about all the crazy stuff that can happen in one day but we were also a bit sad, that was the last evening toghter in our journey and the day latter we will get to the top and will end the crossing of this country.

We celebrated our last night in the tour with wine and we looked at the sunset and if he weren’t an guy that looked like borat I will think that its was a romantic moment.

Oh well maybe next time I will add a women to my journeys.

There is many differences between a journey to a travel and one of them is the bonding with the friends that you meet on the journey. Friends that you meet on a “normal” traveling is most of the time “one time use” and after you continued your travels you forgetting them but the friends that you meet on the journey will stay in your heart all your life.

It more or less remind me of the friends from the army time, together we overcome challenging moments and get stronger from each other.

Etamar was a great companion to me and I we had amazing and rewarding time and I will miss the days of the “together” when I will cross the deserts of Australia soon.

go Borat go!

The last day of the new zealand ride was a day to remember- on a perfect day we rode to cape Rienga the top of the far north of the island a place where the Tasmanian sea meets the pacific ocean .

this is the end!

There is a beautiful light house that is the symbol of this magic place.

You can actually see the meeting point and we really earned this view.

the meeting point in the sea

There is a sign with distances for places all over the world’ places that I have been that I start to forget but one place that I will now start my journey to meet this city.

we did it!

We took a long bus to Auckland and I had flight 2 days latter.

Sidney- here we go.

thank you new zealand it was amazing to meet you with your nice places and amazing people.

Love you all

Roei “jinji” Sadan

end of new zealand chapter

the world