Fearful of having a hot day ahead of us, we woke up relatively early. The night before we had dinner at The New Orchid, which is a Chinese-Australian restaurant, a nice break from the pub meals we’ve been enjoying every evening.
We headed to have what we thought would be a quick brekkie at the White Rose Cafe, which had a wide variety of pastries, meals and brekkie stuff. We though of having a croissant but that thought quickly was upgraded to a full-blown eggs on toast that included obscene quantities of bacon.
The ride started rather nicely as, once again, we veered off the main highway into a secluded road with very little traffic. After that the paved road finished and it was about 25Km of gravel road which was easy to ride. We saw some cyclists along the way coming the opposite direction and were followed by magpies (but not swooped) a few meters, nothing traumatising!
The last 20 Km comprised of riding on the highway which wasn’t unpleasant. By this stage (close to 11.30 am) the temperature were quickly rising and we just wanted to get to our accommodation.
The Royal Hotel Mendooran was the only accomodation we could find, it’s cheap, has the best wifi we’ve had all this trip, and the staff is very friendly – all this for $40 a night! The town is quiet and not much to do, I suspect. I am happy to just relax in the room and try to catch up on emails and updating the EDB website.
Tomorrow will be a longish day as we have to ride all the way the Dubbo. Ideally we would’ve stayed at Baltimore, but being school holidays and long weekend made it impossible for us to find accomodation at the Hair of the Dog Inn, which would’ve been ideal!
