Ok here comes our journey.
Still being on Ls i wasnt 100% sure i was going to ride, it was a long journey and i haven't been out on the scooter much (being a nightshift worker you sleep all day) but thought well this would be a good chance to get experience. So saturday morning we saddled up, running late because Ben finished work late Friday ande being a woman didn't pack until last minute.
We set off from Gosford around 1030am. Travelled up the M1 and into cessnock where we got morning tea. Obviously being speed reatricted meant i was a bit slower. We left cessnock and continued on the Golden highway. Stopped at Denman for fuel and carried on.
About another hr or so and the scooter got very loud, pulled over and the exhaust had become disloged and popped off. So an unexpected stop trying to get an extremely hot exhaust back into place.
We stopped in Dunedoo for a snack and by this time it was around 4pm. We left there and carried on to Gilgandra. During this part of the ride it started getting dark and all of a sudden and Kangaroo jumped out of nowhere and went straight under the ST. Ben managed to keep the bike up and he was safe but the kangaroo had unfortunately not been so lucky. I carried on riding after making sure Ben and the bike were ok.
They caught me up we stopped in Gilgandra for fuel and finally arrived at galargambone approx 7pm.
We had a great time and the food was delicious.
The next day we started off with breakfast at the local cafe and stopped in at Grumpys for a chat and a farewell. We headed off and stopped in Dunedoo for tea un eventful.
We decided to head down the Bylong valley for a more scenic route home, last time we went this way 2 years ago it was beautiful. They had been tarmacing the road so we thought it would be fine 2 years on, we were wrong. Ended up going through quite a few kms of rough corrigated dirt road with which the scooter did not enjoy, but somehow taking it easy i managed to get through it to the praise of the lads. We carried on and were looking for a right turn which would take us back to Denman. We found what we thought was the correct turn and me looking ahead at the road didnt see the small patch of gravel sitting right at the turn as the back wheel slid and down the scooter went. I picked myself the scooter and my pride off the road. Few bruises this morning and a sore wrist but otherwise unscathed.
We carried on to find out that it was the wrong road, so we turned round and took the correct road only to find it was dirt again. Not wanting to put ourselves or the bikes through that again we turned around and just headed back into Sandy Hollow onto the golden highway. We stopped in Denman again for some food and fuel and carried on back down the highway and onto the freeway finally reaching home around 830pm.
It was ab adventure to say the least and this morning pretty much everything aches but we all arrived home safe and in one piece so i would say it was a successful trip. We totaled approx 1100kms for the 2 days.
Unfortunately a few months ago i had come off the scooter after hitting a pot hole in the dark and Ben had done some paint work for me to get rid of all the scratches on the fairing, i guess the poor boy will be painting it again
So that was our trip but it was nice to catch up with Grumpy and see his lovely dogs
