Part of me wanted to skip introducing myself. Hmmm, well, I was born a really really long time ago and I have had time to do really really lots of stuff but now retired, mid 50's. I currently reside in Queensland Australia.

I started lurking around in this forum before my first trip to LOS in October 2006 and it was to be really helpful and informative in my trip planning.

The friendliness, knowledge of the BM's is a great asset to this forum and that’s the way things should be on a message boards.

My next trip will be 30/05/2007 to 22/06/2007 and I am calling it my "Birthday Bash" armed with Golf Clubs.

It would seem that BM, Nicke has the same birthday as me and I can't think of a better way to spend it than celebrating it in the MTB. That’s of course if Ead still allows Nicke to stay out late after he is married. Marriage tends to curb male activites in Australia.

So here I am. Hopefully I'll be helping answer n00b questions after awhile instead of asking them.

Ciao for now


John