On Wednesday 11th I had a 260km run down to Adelaide for a work interview. Rather than the more usual route down the Barrier highway I went a slightly less boring route.
http://g.co/maps/saup9I left home at 10:30am and 260kms later arrived at my destination at 2:15 pm. After the interview I was on the road at 3:30pm heading for Gawler where I fueled up again at Coles Express, a late lunch at McDonalds, a stop off at KFC for Heather and back home up the Barrier highway. I arrived home at 8:00pm and unusally no roos to be seen up where I live.
http://g.co/maps/4verpThinking, do I really want to go back to the city and do the daily commute with all those blind car drivers to contend with?
Yesterday we both went for second trip to go down and meet with employer. We had to go via Port Pirie this time to collect fuel cards from job service provider so we left home at 8:30am for the 109km trip to Pirie. Fueled up at Woolworths and at 10:15am headed off to the city via National 1.
Somewhere around Red Hill I spotted the usual red and blue flashing light up ahead. This also means a slow down to 40KPH in SA when a police or emergency vehicle parked on the side of the road as its lights flashing. Anyway, one police car (local or Highway?? didn't look) and one (rare these days) white police BMW (rare to see them in the city never mind the country). A little later we did see a reddish 1800 'wing heading north but no wave back ((must be ex harley rider)they never wave) and one other bike passed us but couldn't tell you what it was but the rider stayed in RH lane for over 10Kms (dual lanes south of Port Wakefield) Not much more than that unless you include the dreaded city traffic and all that implies which I rarely have problems with.
My appointment was for 2:00pm and we arrived in the area at 12:45 so we had time for lunch and a refuel for the bike.
At 2:30pm we made our way back to Gawler via the more traffic infested Main North Road as I wanted to stop off at a Honda dealer on the way home to check pricing for timing belt change. Stopped off at Gawler Motorcycle Centre and they'd do it for $90 an hour (about 4 hours). They've done a wing before but not an ST. We continued on up to Micks Motorcycles (Honda) and he said $95 an hour and service the book says 2.5 hours and they've done one or two before. They will also install the cruise control if ever I get that rich.......lol.
http://g.co/maps/4df26After all that we got home at 7:00pm
Also I'm begining to think that ST's are very rare in SA.
