It's great to be back out on the sensational open Aussie roads once again. This time, I am away with the Cronulla RSL's Motoring Enthusiasts (MEG) Car Group for 5-day road trip.
Looking forward to the next few days because they are a nice bunch of people. I have never ventured away with this group previously. If you can believe it, there are another four Porsches in our group, five including my 1977 Porsche 911, 2.7 Coupe.
(Above) My 1977 Porsche 911, 2.7 Coupe parked in front of the spillway of the Cotter Dam in the ACT. The Cotter Dam supplies our Nation's Capital, Canberra, with its drinking and potable water.
We departed Sydney yesterday, I joined 30 fellow members & their cars, and we drove south to Mt.Ousley, where we stopped for morning tea & then pressed on inland to Goulburn via the scenic and narrow Macquarie Pass snaking through the Illawarra Escarpment.
In Goulburn we had lunch at the Tattersalls Hotel right opposite the Hibernian Hotel where we dined recently on the National Model A Rally in September.
While l was in Goulburn, l visited Darren at the NRMA workshop to say hello, then out to say hello to Christy at the South Goulburn Caravan Park, they both welcomed me with open arms.
I couldn’t help myself, whilst in Goulburn, I had to call into our favourite Trappers Bakery (located near the Big Ram) to purchase the foremost vanilla slice in the world to enjoy with my afternoon tea when l arrived here at the Motel later in the arvo.
Dinner this evening at the Queanbeyan Leagues Club, then back to the motel to retire for the night. Today, we are off on a scenic 126km drive to the beautiful Tidbinbilla Valley with brief stops at the Mt. Stromboli Observatory, Cotter Dam, the Canberra Deep Space Research Centre then onto lunch at Clarries, a vintage coffee shop located inside the 95-year-old Tharwa Country store in the small, but historic village of Tharwa which boasts the best (and only) pies in Tharwa.
Return to Queanbeyan via the Royalla Solar Farm and its 83,000 solar panels on Old Cooma Road. Dinner tonight at the Royal Hotel Queanbeyan.
The Spring weather is nice, not too cool so far. The frolic continues on Friday morning when we will depart Queanbeyan for our drive to Cooma, the gateway to the Snowy Mountains region. Temps will get a bit cooler as we climb up into the snow capped peaks of the alpine country.
The Porsche is running like a well oiled F1 machine, and it's turning heads where ever l go. It is now 6:00am as I type this, and time for a bacon & egg roll and then the road awaits us for today's rolling adventures.
Cheers from the road,
Warbo
RELATED: I have owned my Porsche 911, 2.7 Coupe for 43-years.
To read my story on how I purchased it in 1979, the year Hyperno won the Melbourne Cup - CLICK HERE
