Wangaratta Hub & Spoke Day 1

Today was an early start at home at about 7.30 am with my mate from New Zealand, Chris Jones and I getting breakfast and then packing the ute.

We were ready to leave at about 9.00am which was great…. I was thinking we might take a couple more hours…. Amazing what a difference another pair of hands makes!

After dropping off a book at Rob Bakers home and having a quick coffee in Mont Albert we’re off to pick up Frank and make our way to Wangaratta!

The road trip to Wangaratta is about 250 kms on the Hume Freeway and the traffic was pretty good even though it was the end of the Easter break!

We made a lunch stop in Euroa and enjoyed a coffee and pie/ pastie.

After this it was off to Wangaratta. We arrived at about 1.00pm with most of the others in our group arriving around the same time.

After settling in to our room we changed into our riding gear for the shortish 34 km to Milawa and back. The weather was quite hot, high 20’s , with some cloud cover and virtually no wind.

The traffic on the road to Milawa was very heavy with holiday makers.

We enjoys lovely iced coffee at Brown Brothers in the shade which was very pleasant. It was great to catch up with all I the group and to introduce Chris to the boys!

The ride back to “Wang” was delightful with virtually no traffic.

Arriving back it was good to have a shower and change into casual gear ahead of dinner at the RSL.

Today was a great start to the trip and the smoothness of it is largely due to Steve Seymour’s planning…. Well done Steve!

Only one picture today other than the route map.

It is of us all , except Jeff enjoying coffee at Brown Brothers in Milawa