I wanted to stop at Isla Gorge. I had been there once as an apprentice. There is stuff you don't remember like there is 1.3km of gravel to get in. The view is amazing as I remembered. I am sure many people rush past and never see it. Our first trip drama happened here. As Warren put his side stand down one of the bolts holding it on broke. It took a fair while to get the other one out so we could remove the stand completely. In the meantime the girls watched the local SES boys practice mine recuse.
We decided we would see what we could get to fix it in Miles in the meantime Warren could only stop beside trees so he could lean his bike there. Made it look like a real dirt bike.
Pulled up for a short stop in Wandon where we rang Gorgon Gilmour an old friend of ours just in case he was in Miles (I thought he work at the garage in Dulaca - he doesn't he works in Miles) He was and we arranged to have lunch together and discuss the bike. And catch up.
It was great to catch up with Gordon. He sounded like he was having a pretty bad day so it made his day too. Warren and Gordon and I went back to Gordon's work and fix Warren's side stand which required removing the muffler. Fun fact - Gordon works with a lady who used to race sidecars at Bathurst.
We were back on the road about 3.30 had a short stop at Moonie for an ice cream and to reminisce about living there when I was working in the area as an apprentice. The place has chance a fair bit and now sells a full range of western wear including those short footy shorts. We got into Gundi about 6.30
Lessons for today have friends in the right place in times of need. Wide loads here can be very wide. We met 10 today 2 with police escorts
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