I eventually turned up at home today. Took a more leisurely way home, lots of narrow bumpy backroads (Waterfall Way, Thunderbolts, across to Dorrigo then down the Putty Road, across to Oberon and down to Taralga, across a backroad to Laggan to Crookwell then down to Gunning, from there backroads to Canberra. Apart from hail around Marulan and torrential rain on Friday afternoon the weather was fine. Just as I thought I was done, in some roadworks from Taralga they kindly decided to dump a truck road of fill across the road but leveled it a bit so I could just make it through. So now you know why the bike is dirty sometimes - after the rain it was reasonably clean but now a bit sorry.
Diesel's work has just begun...