Day 452 | Millars Creek: after a bumpy old day
79 km | zzOz total: 13,951 km
It’s been a bumpy old ride to get to the Leichhardt River on the Wills Development Road and I’m feeling sore in the posterior region, basically a heat rash aggravated by movement and a Brooks Flyer almost stretched beyond its useful life.
You cross above the Falls, that’s the Leichhardt Falls, just a dribble currently but an impressive 8m drop across a wide valley, a huge mashup of whole tree logs and piles of sand showing water must rip through there in the Wet Season.
So I was somewhat sore when I turned north on the now asphalt road and started bashing directly into the wind, just hope that northerly lasts all the way to Adelaide, but nothing for it but to crank along, look for more water and listen to a podcast on the old iPod.
For some reason things got philosophical, that’s what happens with Radio National, talking about the writings of the 17th century inventor of the essay, Montaigne.
This is a summary of some of his ideas:
read a lot;
forget most of what you read;
be slow witted;
wake from the sleep of habit;
guard your humanity;
live temperately;
do a good job, but not too good;
do something no one else has done before;
see the world;
philosophise only by accident;
reflect on everything;
regret nothing;
give up control;
be ordinary and imperfect;
let life be its own answer.
Seems I’ve got a tick in most of the boxes.
Nothing about bicycles in there though.