Dec 8 - 9
I got underway by 11:00 the next morning, with 4-5 hours of riding ahead of me - back up (literally) the motorway, then heading northeast on SH2 up into the Rimutaka Mountain Range. The road sign indicating that the route I was taking was “open” foretold what would be the most difficult […]
Dec 4 - 8
Heading south from New Plymouth along Highway 1, I began to think I had left sheep behind in favor of herd after herd of cattle (which should have come as no surprise, given what I’d learned in Puke Ariki. I travelled for quite a while without seeing a single sheep, but they […]
Dec 2 - 4
To get to New Plymouth, Janet (my other host at Waitomo Caves Guest Lodge) suggested I take the “coastal” route, rather than heading immediately back on the highway. After estimating the distance I’d be travelling before finding a petrol station (maybe 100km) and how far I thought I could go before I’d […]
Nov 30 - Dec 2
So the ride South to Waitomo Caves village was relatively uneventful. Boring really, though I did get to see the machine that moves a portable barrier between lanes of traffic on the Auckland Harbour Bridge (creating more lanes in one direction or the other, as needed).
Waitomo Caves Village is tiny. According […]