It's A Lot Like This:

I'm at the only internet cafe (that anyone of 3 people know about) in Tamworth the "Country Music Capital" of Australia. You'd think it'd be nothing but hicks in hats and big trucks, like Ellensburg, but it's fairly cosmopolitan for Australian standards. There are sidewalk cafes and a pedestrian friendly downtown. I've got stories to tell. "The 3 Sisters" Katoomba, the Blue Mountains in the distance.

Katoomba is a really nice place and I wouldn't mind going back for a longer visit. It reminds me of a much more hippier Roslyn with a bigger population too. There are sidewalk cafes, and small shops along the main drag. The big claim to fame is that they got the cool tours and stuff for the Blue Mountains which is a million hectares of undisturbed mountains and forests. Most all the trees are gum trees. Everywhere gum trees. There is a really nice hostel there too, The Blue Mountain YHA is a converted old motel. I would have stayed longer, but I just got the bike the day before and in the morning it was -1 C! Just below freezing. Gah.

From here I went to Bathurst and then on to Lithgow where it was still cold out so I had to buy some warmer gloves and pants. From Lithgow into Windsor is a marvelous bike ride on the highway called "Bell's Line of Road" it was just enough twist and zip that it never got boring.

Windsor is a growing town in the middle of wine country but it sucked. NEXT!

The next morning... I hit the Putty Road. What a magnificent road for a motorbike! At the north end it was very twisty. Some corners were posted at 15 KM! The road had great sweepers with some parts of the road covered by trees. So pretty.

I ended this day on the "Pacific Highway, which is like most pacific highways too much traffic, small towns and bad driving. I wound up in a town called Blackbeach. It was a dumpy oceanside place with a great visitor's center.

Made it up to Aderdeen The road was nothing exciting more or less a highway but it sure is pretty there. It reminded me of home. Lots of flat land with rolling hills and horses and cows. from here and spent the night in Tamworth at the Tamworth YHA and got little sleep.

Right now I'm in Tamworth and they have a giant guitar. Where's Paul Bunyan when you need him?