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two sipping beer, two sipping cider
and one with a glass of red, watching
grazing wallabies through the haze of
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wouldn’t believe how we used to
travel in our day.
Having travelled to the valley with
two adventure bikes, a 4x4, a tradies’
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the trek coming into Yerranderie. Of
how narrow the road is in parts, the
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and how we were all surprised at how
long it actually took us to get here- two hours from Oberon, the last
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the most concentration; and how it
was all well worth the effort. With an
extra drink, we began to tell a mate’s
son who was also with us that in
our younger years, these roads were
commonly negotiated with two wheel
drives and road bikes that had only
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