Ka Pai Kiwis

We woke up this morning to blue sky. Yay. It was nice to see the sun again especially as we were unsuccessful in completely drying our kit from yesterday.  Once again it seemed to take ages to leave the town but we were soon on our way.  Lots of traffic control, lots of whistle blowing.  We climbed and twisted our way into the hills, very nice countryside.  The dog got lucky - I didn’t even know he was there.  The weather ahead didn’t look promising so once again on the side of the road pulling on our rain kit. The rain was heavy but it didn’t last long.  We then passed a ling line of trucks parked up. Oh no deja vu?   Actually no but there had been a slip and the pathway across it was extremely muddy with a huge puddle in the middle which had to taken full on and it was pretty deep.  Once we negotiated that we slithered down a steep muddy section hoping not to slide into the line of trucks parked up on this side.  Shortly after we hit an arm...

We came for adventure - we’re getting it! We have heard about the condition of the next section of road and it’s not good. It rained again through the night but thankfully it stopped at breakfast time. The young guy who helped with our bags asked where we were heading and looked very concerned when I told him, he said the road is very bad, all under construction. He then added that he heard there had been a big slip but we should be ok on the bike. So it was with trepidation that we set off for our 75km journey. The first mission was to get out of town, the built up area seemed to go on and on and that road was bad enough. We finally reached the archway declaring we were now heading into the hills.   The road was bad, slippery and muddy with potholes full of water.  This is the slippy slushy bit without the potholes and streams running through.  There was much work going on, widening the road and clearing slips. After a while I started to think that yes this is bad but if...