Day 4: Wauchope to Brisbane
6 August 2020
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I continue to be pleased we made the trip to Wauchope. The price of a less interesting ride home was well worth paying. It was hovering around 0ºC at the bottom of the hill in the morning and was said to have been -7ºC at Walcha.
I downloaded and completed the documentation I'd need to get back across the border. We took coffee and food at the local café and walked outside to gear up and say farewell.
Frankly, this is not what I want to see when I approach the bike. It meant I had to make an undignified descent to hands and knees to make sure it hadn't fallen off the bike. If it had, I still don't know where it came from. I hope it was someone else's vehicle and that they found it where I left it: on the edge of the gutter at Wauchope.
After that we said our farewells and headed for home.
There's little to say. Day 1 backwards to Casino. Then I followed the Summerland Way to the border where I hoped (rightly) that there'd be less traffic. Plus it's a good fun ride from Kyogle to Rathdowney.
I stopped at the border as directed by the police officer. He looked at me and then at the bike.
"CB1100," he said, "nice bike."
"Thank you," I replied.
He then asked me the questions he needed to; inspected the declaration on my phone and waved me on.
I stopped once for fuel and was home just before dark.
Statistics
I was away for 4 days, rode a total of 2,123 kilometres, used 103.39 litres of fuel at a cost of AU$124 with average fuel consumption of 5.07 L/100 kms.
I got to travel interstate, a rarity in Australia in the midst of COVID-19, and ride once more with my mate, Pterodactyl.
And … it rained solidly for much of Friday.
