travel

Smell of the home paddock

Sydney, New South Wales
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Got an early start - clear roads and sun shining. There was a freshness about the place after the storm the night before. More divine little backroads with barely any traffic - just the way we like it. Coulda done with a few more twisties tho.

Got into Tamworth mid morning and studied the map. I could backtrack to Walcha and do Thunderbolt's Way again - or down thru Nundle and back onto the highway. The highway would be tediously boring but would take me home in a few hours...

Nundle won - mostly because it was virgin territory for me and one of the locals said it was a great little run. It was lovely, the road surface not too patchy and the countryside stunningly beautiful as always. Nundle is a sleepy little town with logging trucks making up the majority of the traffic.

After that I just blasted down the highway to Singleton and got my fix of twisties on Putty Road. It was nice to be back on home ground... I know the Putty Road well and it has to be one of the best roads in the state. Great surface, good corners and signage. 171kms of smiles.



Update 2011: my mate Pete has changed Mac's name to Mrs Mac - as she has now done 50,000kms and he thinks she is now a Grande Ole Dame.


Flat and straight
Flat and straight
Chaffey Dam
Chaffey Dam
Thunderbolt's Way from the bottom
Thunderbolt's Way from the bottom
The one and only Mac
The one and only Mac
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