Im HOME and it was AWESOME!! Help me plan my trip!

[badinov]

Ali,everyone is envious (me x 2)
Let me look that up....holiday?...holiday??... nope
..Maybe, the Thesaurus ?
sounds like a great adventure !
Home safe.
Enjoy every minute

[ijuschill]

Hope you have a great trip Ali , good luck with the weather

[Dizzi]

Hey sweets, have an absolute blast and safe trip. Can't wait to see pics and hear about it when you get back.

[Nelso]

Travel safe mate and have a great time. Hope your license doesn't cop a flogging.

[smithy5]

Some people get to fulfill their dreams and the rest of us will go to work..... again...... good riding and good weather to you Ali.. I wish I was going

[Ali600+150]

1400km later I'm home! It was all thrills and no spills and the license is still intact! I was due to stay out playing another day (to get to my goal of 2000km) but with thunderstorms forecast for most of the places I was planning to ride and a farm machinery conference on up at Uralla/Armidale (a Harley rally ) I thought it best to head home.

Day 1 - left home at 8.30 and headed up the Putty. First stop was Bulga - just before you get to Singleton. From Singleton I took the back road through to Dungog then Gloucester. The road was TERRIBLE but the scenery was amazing. After Bucketts came Thunderbolts which is also in pretty poor shape at the moment (including 2 long stretches of open road/gravel!!) but it was fun all the same. I pulled into Walcha at 4.30pm and made a bee line for the Walcha Motel. I think I met every rider from QLD heading back from the MotoGP along the way on day 1!! Dinner at the Walcha Hotel was noms!! Mmmmmmm steak!

Day 2 - the day of the Oxley!!! To be honest.....I hated every minute of the twisties going from the Walcha end towards Wauchope. I wasn't comfortable and could barely manage 60km through the tight bits which was really shitting me. Considering I was by myself and not holding anyone up I really should have just chillaxed and enjoyed it but it was hot and I was cranky and I just couldn't get my shit together. I hada nice lunch at Wauchope (Curleys Cafe - highly reccommended!!!) and chilled for a hour. It was HAWT! About 30degrees I reckon and I was in full leathers with Skins under.

Lucky for me I had booked into the Walcha Hotel for two nights becuase the ride back up the Oxley was AWESOME!!!!! I think the combo of a nice lunch, slightly cooler conditions, heading uphill and CHOOSING THE RIGHT FREAKING GEARS helped!!!! I dropped two gears and found 20km of corner speed!!!!!!!!!!! I have a massive addiction to the higher gears and using 2nd doesn't feature in my vocab but hell that 2nd gear got a workout heading back to Walcha!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got back into Walcha just as the thunderstorm hit at 3.30pm - great timing! Dinner was a burger from the local greasy joes - for some reason the Walcha Hotel doesn't do dinner on Friday and Saturday nights?? I was asleep by 8pm

Day 3 - hit the road at 7.30am and headed to Gloucester for brekky. Sooooo glad there are loo's at Nowendoc - its the only thing I hate about being a chick - you guys and your pull over anywhere for a leak is just not fair!! I had a brilliant run back down Buckets Way and after a brief stint on the freeway I jumped on Peats Ridgd Rd and the Old Road to PITS for lunch at 2pm and I was home and showered by 3.30pm.

So it was a brilliant trip. Pics to follow. No problems along the way, my back and shoulder held up but the ankle is screw&#^%ed. And seriously - whats with cruiser riders? I wonder what came first, the cruidser or the attitude?? I got a wave or a nod out of every sportsbike rider (and even one from a 'driver' of a CanAm but NOT ONE nod or wave from the cruiser riders!!!.

Now for the second week of my holiday......SCRAPBOOK THE PHOTOS!!! LOL

[Ali600+150]

Nice and clean before heading off


At the look out on Thunderbolts. I was chatting to a few riders there from QLD who were STILL on there way back from the GP.


On the Oxley. I wanted to take more scenery shots but had a good run with traffic so didn't want to stop!


Lunch at Wauchope


Proof I was there


Got caught up in a burn-off along Thunderbolts


Home and in need of a WASH!!!

[Richo]

Top stuff Ali .. glad to see you had a ball

Im hoping next year will bring me a Z thou and looking forward to putting some nice scenic K's on her

Glad to see ya back and safe dude

Now . .. .GO CLEAN YA FRIGGIN BIKE

[robracer]

Gotta love the oxley & stuff the cruzer riders

[waynemorgan]

Great stuff mate - love the pics. Glad you got home nice and safe

[gpxpunk]

great pics there ali, would be great to get away like that.

[Six Addict]

[Nelso]

Awesome stuff Ali. Good to see the Z out stretching its legs.

[dave#3]

Welcome back. Glad to see you had a good trip.

[Cath]

Happy you got home safe and sound and had a ball!

I definitely want to see the scrapbook once it's done mate