Richard had suggested a get together for dinner, the location was set at Tara QLD, some 1070km from home according to Google maps… I had that weekend free so why not?
Had Friday off work due to stupid fucking Telstra (have I evern mentioned that I HATE Telstra) so got on the road and rode through to Goondiwindi. Went via some roads I hadn’t done before, Wellington to Gulgong then the Black Stump way up to near Gunnedah, got a bit lost trying to figure out which turn to Manilla wasn’t dirt lol but eventually got on the right road, up to Warialda then through North Star and onto Goondiwindi. Was a biggish day. Met Thommo at maccas and overnighted at a motel somewhere.
Saturday morning was hot. bloody qld. sticky. Thommo says “it’s a bit tropical” and I say I’m gonna die. Anyway we rode the huge 140km… I say rode… bounced would be more accurate lol… so we bounced the 140km to Tara, my left mirror was in an interesting position after all the bumps! Got to the pub first but before long the others all started rolling in. Spent the arvo sitting outside, finally a cool breeze blew in and I wasn’t gonna die from the stickiness anymore. Dinner was awesome, rissoles were fantastic :o) Bed pretty early.
Sunday got up I dunno, 6am? Chucked my stuff in my bag and hit the road. Thommo escorted me back to QLD (to make sure I left the state I think…) then it was just straight down the Newell. I think I caused manslaughter to a family of ducks, and I still feel realy awful about that :o( barrelling down the highway, the sun is shining, I’m rocking out to whatever was on my mp3 player at the time and I see *something* on the road ahead… WTF? FAAAARKKKK it’s DUCKS! A mother duck with about 10 ducklings!! I braked and swerved but the mother duck flew away and half the babies fell over flapping their wings and looking all pathetic. There were cars not all that far behind me (not visible but I had not long ago done some overtaking) so I just have visions of these 10 little squished ducklings :o(. I hope the mother came back and saved them…
Between Narrabri and Coonabarabran a HWP passed me going the other way and I was not entirely sure what speed I was doing… got a bad case of the paranoids, checking my mirrors heaps so ended up pulling up at a rest area for a smoke break before heading into Coonabarabran for fuel but no smoke, straight back on the road. Started to get a little tired by Gilgandra so stopped at the Caltex roadhouse and got a sausage roll and a gogo juice. Was sitting outside enjoying said sausage roll and gogo juice when a lady came and sat down with me and we started talking about life the universe and everything so actually spent about an hour there… ooops.
Into Dubbo for fuel, then Parkes, Forbes (the 9 turned 70,000km just outta Forbes!) Grenfell then Young where I stopped to change visors and put on a jumper as it was getting COLD! Rolled through Wombat and Harden at last it was properly dark so my headlights were doing something. Caught up to a Bdouble coming into Binalong and was behind him for a while til a car behind me went past us both so I just tucked in behind him.
Stopped at Yass for fuel then home, got in about 8:00pm.
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