It’s been a busy few days since last Tuesday when I returned from NZ. One important job was getting one of our cars ready for sale. I put our 2008 Honda Accord Euro on an online sales site and within a few hours it was sold – to an interesting purchaser, however, I can’t tell you about that just yet, but I will come back to this story in a month or so. OK, so other than that, clothes have been washed, bills paid, pictures uploaded etc etc, so I was really hanging out for a ride on the mighty ZX14! Mrs Tarsnakes was keen to come, so we headed off around 9.00am, with a forecast of 24C and sunshine. Here’s our route:

We headed along the Great Ocean Road from Geelong to Lorne for a coffee stop, then inland to Dean’s Marsh and from there to Forrest. The plan was to stop for a while at the picnic area at the West Barwon Dam, however, it was closed due to an off road bicycle racing event.

Rather than turn back we cruised along the Colac- Apollo Bay road and then turned up Turton’s Track. The bush smelled just beautiful – I never tire of the smell of eucalyptus. By Beech Forrest  we needed lunch so headed to The Ridge Cafe – the home of what I’ve previously declared to be the best hamburgers in the world. We sat out on the deck overlooking the Otways. Mrs T had fish and I re-tested their organic based burger. It was a nice touch that the owner introduced me to his cook as their first ever customer about 3 years ago.

Views from the deck – future burger mince right there I’d guess.

That hit the spot Mrs T!

From Beech Forest we tracked down to Gellibrand and stopped in Colac to see how Steve’s Norton Dominator restoration is progressing – check it out on his 79 x 100 Norton Restoration and Ride blog.

From the workshop we progressed inside where the girls were heavily engrossed with brochures for OS travel – more trips are being planned!

From Colac we took an easy run up Hwy 1 back to Geelong. It was a great day out, great weather, great food and great company. Have I mentioned before that I love riding that ZX14?