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Ride against depression

In conjunction with The ADAA, the riders will also be promoting the awareness of depressive related illnesses across the country and to send out the message that there are indeed answers to control this debilitating illness and to offer direction for sufferers on where to seek help. Damian Milo and Bruce Potts, will be completing a passion that has been in the planning for years, inspired by other great adventure motorcycling tales from around the globe and their own deep driven instincts for adventure and living life to the full. Once just a dream, the trip is ever closer to reality.

Departing Oct 16th 2010, two adventure motorbike riders will commence on a journey of a lifetime, crossing the continent from East to West, returning home via the southern coastline some six weeks later. Covering six weeks and some 12,000 kilometres, the journey will begin from the headquarters of the ADAA on the beautiful Sunshine Coast trekking due west; from sunrise to sunset everyday. From Poeppel’s Corner, Bruce & Damian will head south down the famous Birdsville track, then north via the equally famous Oodnadatta track before setting west again past Uluru and then onto the Gunbarrel Highway. Upon reaching the most westerly point in Australia, the pair will head south, through Perth and Margaret River before turning east again along the Nullabor Plain.