MAINLY FLAT BUT FANTASTIC
WHAT, I CAN HEAR you asking, can he possibly be on to nominate this flat, straight and hot two-lane blacktop as a favourite road? Well sucks to you; these are my favourite roads, not necessarily yours. But let me tell you why I feel this way.
Half of this ride is fine by anyone’s standards, and I like it very much for all the usual reasons. Once you get out of Adelaide and past Gawler, you find yourself on one of those lovely South Australian country roads that dip, rise and curve between rich grain fields and vineyards before the surrounds fade a bit to scrub and occasional stands of trees – and occasional ruins of old stone farmhouses. Then you pass Mount Remarkable National Park, slip through Horrocks Pass and… well, and that’s that.
