Hiyo! I moved from Coonabarabran last year down to Melbourne. Still go up that way occasionally to see my mum. When you head to Binnaway, perhaps go via somewhere near Cassilis then Coolah.
I haven't got my GPS tracks handy, but last time I headed south from Coona, I added some waypoints into the GPS from points of interest flagged in the hema motorcycle atlas, and told the GPS to take the shortest routes between them rather than the quickest routes. That way it preferred some lovely little back dirt roads. Mendooran down to Wellington almost entirely on dirt, Wellington to Orange via a small (paved) twisty little highway. Mudgee to Hillend is hell of a lot of fun for a learner (I did it frequently on my L's
, not dirt anymore.
Ilford to Sofala if you're ever going to Sydney. Dubbo to Mendooran (to avoid the highway) to Coonabarabran to Siding Spring (visit all the bikers who work there. Say hi to Wayne for me, and grab one of his wines to take back home
then through the national park, back down to Tooraweenah then back home avoiding the highway again.
Just don't get me started on NSW L plate 80km/h speed limits. Out there in the middle of nowhere, I was sticking to 80km/h indicated (in NSW, a single speeding offence is worth more points than you have available on L's). Then I found out that the suzuki read 10km/h faster than I was really going. So the cars were legally overtaking me with 40km/h differences, and of course most people were actually double my speed. Not safe for anyone. No such limit applies to Victoria (little did I know this when I travelled to Vic on my P's).