The weekend of 2/3 May had been set aside for “house stuff”. The kitchen is in terrible need of replacement so we were going to trawl through the kitchen showrooms etc. Saturday we did this - except most were closed. Knebel Kitchens was the only one of note, and then we wandered around the furniture shops in Fyshwick and found THE couch. 4 - 6 weeks and it will be here. Anyway, that’s a bit boring.
Sunday 3 May dawned fine and cool and sunny. Met Leen, Dazza and Lee at the rest area on the Barton and off we went heading towards Yass via Namina Road or whatever it is called. The 9 was complaining about the cold *cough splutter roar* and we got onto the Hume, through Bowning and into Binalong where we were to turn off for our first exploratory road (yes we were investigating some of the local back roads we hadn’t done before!). After a very short time it turned to dirt. We debated going ahead but decided not to.
So back onto the main road and into Harden for morning tea (pies at the Milk Bar in Murrumburrah(sp?) are pretty good!) and then some back roads (I have NFI where we actually went :lol:) and into Cootamundra for some fuel. We had been planning on having lunch at Coota but it was waaaaay too early so more back roads were the plan!
We left Coota and turned up this little road - it was narrow, single lane and rather interesting when a 4WD towing a horsefloat comes the other way and won’t give any ground :shock:. After a fair while the dreaded sign “gravel road ahead” appeared… straight ahead was a pretty rough looking track and to the left looked like someone’s driveway :lol: the driveway had a sign saying “to Hume Highway” so what the hell we took that one. It wasn’t too bad, just a little track winding through Farmer Joe’s paddock - we scared about a thousand cows and a few sheep as we rode along - it was in quite good condition really. Finally we came to the Hume and onto the tarmac. (on my next ride I looked at this and if I had of seen it from the Hume no way would I have thought it was a road!).
We slabbed it into Jugiong and went to stop at the cafe but there was a group of people we had been avoiding already there so we went to roadhouse instead. Good choice, they make an awesome chicken burger 
I had planned to just slab it home from there while the others went off exploring but ended up going exploring as well… glad I did! Up the Hume for a little bit more then we turned left and this road was pretty good for a country road, up, down, left, right, it was interesting! Eventually we came to a + intersection… Leen stopped to consult the map and I said fark it lets go left so we did and ended up opposite the turn off for Galong on the Binalong Road.
As far as I knew the plan was to go back the way we came from there but nooooo Leen went straight at Binalong so it was home via Boorowa (almost).
We stopped at Murrumbatemen for a drink and chat before we all went home. It was a good day out and good to do some local roads I hadn’t done before! 
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