Day 73 - New italy to Grafton - 82km
I was having enough of the highway and turned off a side road taking me to Grafton. It was a lovely ride through sugar cane farms and cattle farms. Riding alongside the huge Clarence River.
I stopped in the small town of Ulmarra, it has a free ferry across the river and big mansions lined it's banks. I checked out the antique shop and left with an antique little pin.
I got a call from my friend Trevor in Darwin saying his mate was in Grafton and we should meet up. Not long after I I waved down by Frank, the friend, and we ended up meeting in Grafton.
He lived in the area a long time and told me a few great stories including the time he drove an old Sydney double decker bus to Byron Bay and parked it in the sand dunes, where he lived as well as a conveyor belt of hippies.
A big truck pulled up at the servo and we both said how clean and shiny it looked the driver said he comes into Grafton to support the servo as they have the best food around.