Reaching Australia and new big milestone

This week on the Sunday ride we are leaving Asia and going overseas to Australia where we cycle from Cairns to Townsville. We adapt to a new environment and I reach a new big milestone. So sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. Welcome to a new week live from Dili here in Timor Leste. After having reached the end of the Asian route here in Dili a couple days ago we've been very busy preparing to fly to our next continent. We're going to Australia and the fact is that Australia has a lot of regulations concerning soil, dirt, stuff like that so everything needs to be thoroughly cleaned. The bikes, the camping gear, clothes, anything you can imagine, everything has been deep cleaned. We're still busy putting the bikes into the bike boxes right now. The boxes are really small so we're seeing how to make it fit. So it's quite stressful but hopefully tomorrow morning we're taking the plane to Australia. So so and down under welcome to Australia. Country number 28 and actually the third continent out of the four that I'll be visiting on this trip. It's a pretty cool milestone and a new chapter starting and yeah there's lots of things to talk about especially the transition coming from Asia to Australia. A lot of big big changes one of which is the financial challenge down here. Things are really expensive here and we have to adapt a little bit. So in between the cities it's going to be pretty much only camping and luckily in the cities there are a lot of warm showers availabilities. Speaking of which for the last couple of days we've been staying with Sue and Ian down in Cairns and they have been absolutely amazing. Very very sweet people. They made us feel like we found a family for a couple of days on the other side of the world so thank you guys if you see this. Really appreciate it and for us it's time to camp out in the Australian bushes for the very first time, cook some dinner and then tomorrow continue down south. Oh man, this is not a great start of the Australian adventure. We were cycling here on this road on the Tablelands near to Etherton and I hear something snap and look down and it appears to be my front derailleur where it's screwed to the frame snapped in half. So found a temporary solution right now just with cable ties and it's far from ideal. I can only use one gear at least I can make my way down to the next town. Hopefully we can fix it there but this is not how you want this to start. A very good morning from the Tablelands and as we are enjoying our morning ride here over the beautiful rolling hills of this beautiful landscape I am slowly counting down because something exciting is about to happen. 10,000 kilometers ago I was in Iran on an empty highway and if you've seen that video you might remember what happened there. I crossed the 10,000 kilometer checkpoint and right here right now in northeast Australia I am about to cross the next one. 20,000 kilometers, one to be extremely proud of. What a milestone! Basically on the other side of the world and I cycled here so yeah this is one to remember. So beautiful, beautiful landscape to also celebrate this milestone and we're not there yet. There's still at least 10,000 kilometers more to go so onwards we go and explore into the world. Cheers to 20,000 kilometers. So we were having lunch here in this creek. We were cooling our feet a little bit in the water and we got a friendly reminder that we are still in Australia and that wildlife around here can be creepy or dangerous because right next to our lunch this guy, shut up, it's honestly the size of my hand. I don't know if it's venomous but creepy for sure. A good morning on this last day to Townsville, the final destination of our couple first days here on Australian soil. We still have a very big day ahead about 160 kilometers but to be honest we've also made it back to the coastal area which means there's no way getting around the flat and straight main road. So we've been eating kilometers for breakfast and I'm quite confident we can get there in time and then after Townsville we can look forward to a couple of beautiful weeks to Brisbane and then to Sydney. Next week we are confronted with the sheer size of this incredibly big country and all its desolated areas. We battle intense headwinds for hundreds of kilometers and we meet more Australian wildlife but that's it for this week and I'll see you in the next one. Hi there, thank you for watching this video up until the end and did you like this video don't forget to like and subscribe down there or click on my face right there. It really helps me a lot so thank you. I would also like to remind you that I am making this trip in order to raise money to build a school in Africa. For more information or donations click on the school right next to my face and while you're at it don't forget to follow me on social media as well links down in the description below. See you next week!