Our Tour of Aotearoa

8 am and we are on our bikes. This is seems to be about standard here, everyone else is getting ready to leave too. It's another...

Sunday. We are not in a hurry to start and it is 10 before we are on the road. The day is fine and calm. Perfect. Arno says everything on...

A week working in Christchurch has flashed past. Once again I spent too much time in my motel room, and ate too much - My appetite from...

Arno has organised a ride for us back to Christchurch with a friend of his this afternoon, so we don't need to catch the bus. It is a...

Yesterday afternoon the wind picked up and it got cold. The ground is wet this morning, it rained overnight - Wow, it has snowed on the...

As planned we were on the road before 7, but only went as far as the Bakehouse where we stopped to have another pie for breakfast. No...

We are leaving early, on the road at 7:30 because rain is forecast for the afternoon. Now it is overcast and cool, but fine for riding....

We have a 'rest' day here in Temuka today, but I have a chore - ride to Timaru, buy tyres, and return. Like a lot of things there is a...

We get comfortable at a place then pack up and move. I better get used to this, it will be our life for the next month. We did not do...

Finally we are making a move, albeit a preparatory one, driving to Burwood to leave our car with Diane, the neighbor of Sau Keng's...

I had a fright overnight with very painful cramp in both thighs, I've never had cramp there before, nor as painful - and it did not want...

A week has flown by. We have been working at the Airport Gateway Motel. Sau Keng with 15 workmates, crowded together around a large table...

Friday November 1st We are on the road at 8:30, a comfortable start after the worst of the traffic, but not wasting time. We make a...

Thursday, October 31 2024: 10pm. We are continuing our ride south! I have stowed my bike in the back of the car, put the trike on its...

This will be my last post until we resume our ride - down the South Island next summer. It feels good - and a bit strange - to be back...

We are going home today. It feels good, we are both looking forward to being home again with friends, family and having a routine. Taking...

Today we will complete the very last piece of our journey. Lower Hutt to Wellington. After today we just have to take a train home. (A...

Te Marua to Woburn, Lower Hutt: An easy cruise down the Hutt river to our friends Barry and Yu Cong We stay at Fantail cottage as long as...

Today we ride to Te Marua, on the far side of the Remutakas. This will be our last full day riding, after this we have just two short...

Our plan was to stay near to the start of the Remutaka rail trail, Featherston, Martinborough or nearby. But this is Easter weekend, the...