It was a great day for a ride.
The GPS took me up the Bruce Highway (choked with holiday traffic so the safety lane got a lot of use) onto the D'Auguilar Hwy trough to Kilcoy. Caught up to a 4WD just before Wamuran, which insisted on doing 40 on the 60 zone and 60 in the 80 zone with so much traffic coming the other way, there was no room to overtake. Eventually, they turned off, and at the speed limit, I caught up to another slow car, variably doing 10 to 20 under the limit. I had to sit behind them until after Kilcoy.
After Kilcoy, I turned left onto Esk-Kilcoy Rd and very shortly after turned right onto Gregors Creek Rd. Within 500 metres, I caught up to a very slow caravan, and fortunately, there was a place to overtake.
Sitting on the speed limit again, about 80% along the road, I spied a white ST1300 up ahead. As I closed in, I could see they were riding with a pillion, and I assumed it was Draco and Ros. When I arrived at the RTE, I found out I was right.
It was great to catch up with so many OzSTOC people and have a great chat and good food. Even though I was on a diet, I found a relatively light meal option, which was delicious.
It was time to head home, and I decided to go via Mt Glorious. With the GPS set for home (it kept wanting me to go via Kilcoy), I headed towards Esk knowing/hoping it would pick the Mt Glorious route. It told me to turn left at Mt Beppo Rd, but assuming it was trying to still get me to go via Kilcoy, I kept heading south to the Esk-Kilcoy turnoff I knew.
I almost missed the Winenhoe-Somerset turn-off, and even though the GPS wanted me to continue to Kilcoy, I did a quick U-turn to head to Mt Glorious.
Beetling up Mt Glorious, enjoying the corners and the bush, I came up to some roadworks traffic lights, and saw what looked like the brake lights of a Honda ST1300. As I was pulling up I could see Carrol's OzSTOC jacket, and Shiney raising his arm to wave. (I left Toogoolawah before they were suited up)
We had a short chat at the lights, and the two catr at the front waved us ahead when the lights went green.
I followed Shiney and Carrol down towards Samford, and onto Eaton's Crossing Rd. On the roadworks I noticed Shiney lifting his arms and looking like he was pointing out something to Carrol, so I'm looking up into the trees, powelines, sky and wondering and then he kept doing it. I realised he was waving back to the little yellow cutout human shapes that are on the roadworks point out the overhead powerlines to the ground crew. That gave me a really good chuckle.
I waved goodbye to Shiney and Carrol as I turned off to Lilley Rd and the Ira Buckby Rd (which my GPS calls I R A Buckby Rd) and made my way home, in time to spend some time with the Grand-daughters before they were picked up to go home.
Thanks, Leo, for the wonderful destination suggestion.
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