Mangaweka Awastone to Tiahape (15.01 miles/24.17 kms) With the clock set back Sunday I woke up before 5:00 am, instead of the usual time of 6:00. It had not rained, and no excuse for me not to trek today, so I packed up and was out the door around 7:30. It took me about twenty-five …
Continue reading New Zealand, Day 60, Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Mangaweka Awastone (Zero Day) Today, I woke to a overcast cloudy sky and everything outside was wet from the night’s rain. To trek or not to trek was still an unanswered decision. What a great place to have another zero day, if I had (were) to take one. I never really had to take a …
Hunterville to Mangaweka Awastone (18.0 miles/29.0 kms) Woke up again not sure what I was going to do today, depending on the weather as the forecast was for rain. It was cold, 39 degrees, but the sky only looked partially cloudy. The time changed today too, back an hour, so I gained an hour and …
Hunterville (Zero Day) I was undecided last night whether to go on today and I woke this morning to rain, and that tipped the scale to me staying and having a zero day today. I think I needed it because I fell back asleep and slept until almost 9:00 am and it felt good. The …
Continue reading New Zealand, Day 57, Saturday, April 6, 2019
South of Hunterville to Hunterville (10.32 miles/16.61 kms) I woke up this morning to a cold and wet 46 degrees, one of those mornings I didn’t want to get out of the sleeping bag. I am starting to think that many mornings, as mornings are much darker now as it doesn’t get light until a …
Sanson to south of Hunterville (18.98 miles/30.56 kms) I got an early start and was out the door before 8:00, the advantage again of not having to pack up the tent. I didn’t realize how cold it was until I stepped outside and saw the steam coming from my breath. It was in the forties …
Continue reading New Zealand, Day 55, Thursday, April 4, 2019
Foxton to Sanson (20.21 miles/33.81 kms) Today was uneventful day, yet a good day. Clear skies and cool weather was the forecast, and that is what I woke to this morning, perfect weather for trekking. I miss sleeping in my tent, but getting up and packing in half the time surely is nice, and I …
Continue reading New Zealand, Day 54, Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Levin to Foxton (13.45 miles/21.65 kms) Today was my first day back to trekking and my first day trekking on the North Island. It turned out to be shorter than I expected. I was glad that I didn’t start yesterday because it rained hard all day long and it would have made for a hard …
Continue reading New Zealand, Day 53, Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Wellington and Levin Thursday morning was a casual morning as my departure for the ferry to Wellington was at 10:45 am. I stopped to grab a bite to eat at a bakery near the terminal where there are a multitude of Backpacker accommodations. I had considered one before I found the motor camp. The Backpackers …
Blenheim to Picton (17.60 miles/28.34 kms) This was going to be the last leg of my trek of the South Island from Invercargill to Picton, and after 41 days of trekking, I finally completed it! The last few days, I assumed would be fairly easy, but they turned out to be some of the more …
Continue reading New Zealand, Day 47, Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Ted Trekking 