3 of the 4 people I wanted to visit in Canberra are away, and the 4th already has plans. Additionally, there were no interesting rides to be had around Canberra, so all in all I decide to skip Canberra and ride straight to Sydney today. It's going to be a long ride. I'm heading down the driveway at 7:22am.
The bike won't start in the morning, the battery is nearly flat. I am able to push start it cold, down the road though, and it behaves from there. I'll definitely be taking out the peripherals I added, to see if they're causing the problem, or if there is some other part of the bike that is going, like the battery or alternator.
I head down the road for the long, non-scenic route... I'm tired from the long trip, and want to save the coastal route for another ride. I just want to get home. I stop at Holbrook to take some photos of the submarine display they have there, and at Gundagai, then it's straight on home.
About an hour outside of Sydney it starts raining, so I'm into my wet weather gear for the last stretch home.
I roll into the driveway at 6:30pm. The odometer reads 76,830km. 8,943km covered in the entire trip, over 17 days. The jacaranda tree out the front has flowered while I'm away, and the driveway is covered in purple jacaranda flowers. I'm home.
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