Sat May 11, 2019 @ 05:00

After a good nights sleep in a cosy cabin under a starry sky, we slept in a tad, rushed to get breakfast and got a lift courtesy of the lodge owner back to the main road, just in time to hail the bus bound for lake Taupo. Whilst it was a spectacular road, the Thermal highway was way too busy with too many trucks and too little verge. By mid morning we were in Taupo and 2 coffees later ready to ride north. Finally a flat road!