Any Port in a Storm: Wodonga to Rutherglen

November 30, 2017

Today was another comparatively easy day of riding. Most of the ride was in scenic rural countryside with wheat crops, hay and some grazing in flat riverland and low hills. The outskirts of Wodonga have some impressively large secondary industry such as the Visy packaging factory. With trucking having displaced much of the rail freight business, transport service businesses are also a visible part of the economy here. Albury-Wodonga is a major regional centre on the main route between Sydney and Melbourne. It appears to be doing well.

Exiting Wodonga by following a westerly bearing on the compass worked well for a while. There’s a side road running parallel to the freeway which was excellent until it connected with the Murray Valley Highway. The MVH was virtually shoulderless and very busy so I didn’t stay on it for long. If felt so dangerous that I quickly turned down a gravel side road and using compass, Googlemaps on my phone, meandered by pleasant unsealed and sealed backroads to Rutherglen, a small tourist town famous for its fortified wines, especially Port.
Torrential rain is forecast so I have bunkered down in a motel.

A few pics tell the tale of today’s casual ride through town outskirts and rural countryside side .