1 Remembering the Moon Landing Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:44 am
Gaz
Life time member
Some of us are old enough and still have the capacity to remember watching the Moon Landing of the Apollo 11 crew in 1969.
Here in Australia the 50th anniversary is making the news due to the fact that the space tracking stations in the Canberra region were the first to receive the pictures and then relayed them to the rest of the world.
The Ducati Club in Canberra has apparently been holding the Apollo Rally every 5 years to commemorate the event (as good a reason to go for a ride as any other I suppose) and it is on again this weekend at the site (now decommissioned) of the Orrroral Valley Tracking Station.
So for our July getaway, Tom & I are going to knock out a 1,300km (+100 for Tom) round trip for the opportunity of camping out again in sub zero degC temperatures, meeting up with Waz and Al-58 and probably making new friends, gathering around a camp fire and drinking to those crazy people who jumped on a rocket and sped off to the moon. A bit like going to a motorcycle rally I suppose.
Plan is to overnight in a pub in Taralga on Friday night, then down some roads less travelled to the west then south of Canberra to the rally site. Sunday morning will see us heading up past Canberra on the main road to the Big Merino at Goulburn for fuel, hopefully arriving there in the 10:30 - 11:00am range. Waz will likely leave us there while Tom & I overnight on Sunday in Rylstone.
If anyone is interested in either the rally or crossing paths along the way shout out and it will be good to catch up.
Cheers
Here in Australia the 50th anniversary is making the news due to the fact that the space tracking stations in the Canberra region were the first to receive the pictures and then relayed them to the rest of the world.
The Ducati Club in Canberra has apparently been holding the Apollo Rally every 5 years to commemorate the event (as good a reason to go for a ride as any other I suppose) and it is on again this weekend at the site (now decommissioned) of the Orrroral Valley Tracking Station.
So for our July getaway, Tom & I are going to knock out a 1,300km (+100 for Tom) round trip for the opportunity of camping out again in sub zero degC temperatures, meeting up with Waz and Al-58 and probably making new friends, gathering around a camp fire and drinking to those crazy people who jumped on a rocket and sped off to the moon. A bit like going to a motorcycle rally I suppose.
Plan is to overnight in a pub in Taralga on Friday night, then down some roads less travelled to the west then south of Canberra to the rally site. Sunday morning will see us heading up past Canberra on the main road to the Big Merino at Goulburn for fuel, hopefully arriving there in the 10:30 - 11:00am range. Waz will likely leave us there while Tom & I overnight on Sunday in Rylstone.
If anyone is interested in either the rally or crossing paths along the way shout out and it will be good to catch up.
Cheers
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Gaz
1990 K75 6427509; 1987 R80G/S PD 6292136; 2010 G650GS ZW13381;