Long weekends rock!  Especially when you get some nice weather to go out and play in.

On Sunday it was the Connies turn to get some loving and after getting everything done really early (due to daylights saving ending but still waking up at the same time) I was geared up and off down the road by just after nine.

With still just a T-shirt and shorts on under my gear I cruised on over to Bulls to fuel the bike up and to scrape the bugs off my visor that I should have cleaned before I left...

I had a number of options in my mind and plenty of time for a decent ride.  I was keen to do some sort of loop that would give me a few k's but also didn't want to run foul of the 4km/h tolerance running this weekend.

Getting closer to Whanganui I had to start making up my mind - a run up the Para's, further up the 'naki or somewhere else completely"  Turning towards Fordell the Para's were definitely on and I was even wondering about going further North and doing the Forgotten Highway as well but then I thought - what about the River Road"  I hadn't been up there for a while and it was definitely a lovely day for a slow cruise along the river...
In Upo there was a mufti cop giving some boys in a WRX some bad news and that suggested that perhaps he was patrolling around the Para's - how terrifically unsporting of him.  That made my decision a little easier and I took the turn-off to head up the river.

It was still pretty early but there was the odd...