A big Riding Day.

I am writing this Sitting in a cabin at the YHA in Batemans Bay, I am lucky because normally there are four other people in this room, however I have it to myself this situation may not last for long but I will enjoy the solitude while it lasts. I am here until Thursday morning, i will check out the surrounding area over the next few days.My Spyder is due for a service so tomorrow morning I will ring Canberra Motorcycles up and attempt to book it in for Wednesday, it's not that far from here to Canberra and there are some great roads I can ride into Canberra.

I left Roberts this morning at 0600 and rode out to Richmond, my first destination for the morning was Lithgow, along the bells line of road, what a great bike road and very nice country side as well. From Lithgow I took the Tarana road from lithgow which will eventually take you to Bathurst, this is a poor quality road in places with more potholes than road, having said that it is still fun to ride on and the Spyder handled it without to many problems. Before the road went to Bathurst I took the road to Oberon and from Oberon I rode onto Goulburn

I stopped at Goulburn for Brunch at a place called the Paragon, it should be called Charge a lot, although the food was nice I didn't think that a Bacon lettuce and tomato toasted sandwich and a cappuccino was worth 12 dollars, If I had bought my reading glasses with me I wouldn't have ordered anything and I couldn't find MacDonald's for my usual breakfast.

After the most expensive BLT sandwich in the universe I continued my journey, I rode to Moss vale, which is a very pretty place and full of Bric a brac shops that mom would love. We all know that Bric a brac is actually the Latin word for crap, but that is another story.

I rode from Moss vale through Kangaroo Valley and eventually to Batemans Bay. The last 90 or so K's where hard as I was hot as hell and everything from the waist down was numb but that is to be expected occasionally on a long ride like today.

According to the Stats on my GPS today I rode 545 km and was moving for 8:03 hours an average speed of 68 km/h and a maximum speed of 119 km/h, my distance from home is 1177km so no wonder my bum was numb.

I could have taken the easy way out and rode straight down the highway but this holiday is not about the destination it's about the journey and the adventure, warts and all. It dosent take long once I am off the bike to recover anyway and I used to feel stiff if I drove a car over a long disitance.



This is a video of some of the things I did in the first week, I have posted it on facebook however it is here for those that don't use facebook.

Well that's all for now folks until next time take care everyone.

Steve