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Sunday Ride Kearsley

14 November 2021

Our Second Sunday ride in November was to
Kitchener with morning tea at Greta.

We departed McDonalds Hexham at 9.00am with
seven bikes, one trike and nine riders. We rode up
the Pacific Highway and onto the New England
Highway. We then took the M1 turnoff onto John
Renshaw Drive, riding through to Kurri Kurri,
Lovedale and onto Greta even after the ride leader
made a wrong turn again. We do stop a lot at Greta
but the bakery is popular and the rotunda in the
park provides us with a peaceful place to sit
together.

After morning tea, we rode up the New England Highway turning left
at Hermitage Road and out to Broke. From Broke we rode down to
Wollombi and turning left again to Millfield. At Millfield we turned
right onto Millfield Road which becomes Sanctuary Road, and we
stopped at Ellalong Public School. I had to stop and check Google
maps to see where we were going. We were originally going to the
Kearsley Hotel but after trying to make a booking I later found out it
was shut after the new owners had purchased it.

The new destination for lunch was the Khartoum Hotel at Kitchener.
The Khartoum Hotel was excellent, with plenty of parking out the
front, a good lunchtime menu and great service.
After lunch we all turned in different directions to make our own way
home.

Mark

“In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize
that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer
and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.

On a cycle the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not

just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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