Journal Entries

Stunning scenery and apparently gets better! Absolute cracker of a day today makes it even better.

Feel the serenity! Lake Rotoiti is the second of 3 lakes we cycled past on the way out of Rotorua.

Yousd swear you in England. It’s green and lush and after battling headwinds for twenty Ks we’ve just devoured some ham and cheese sangers and continue on to Whakatane.

Just about to start! It’s a beautiful clear and crisp Rotorua morning. Apart from a struggle with Chris front brakes, and an elegant Chinese woman burping in our faces as we were trying to fix it, everything has been going swimmingly.

Going for an afternoon walk in the woods behind my parents house

4 days to go until we fly out to New Zealand. I’ve even started packing which has to be a world record for me in preparedness. Here’s the route map and elevation. It’s mainly sealed roads except for the last two days when we cut up through the mountains back to Rotorua. Hopefully we will have gained some fitness by then because it looks a wee bit hilly!

Our traditional hike when visiting my parents in Nova Scotia. Gaff Point, Lunenburg county.

Out for our now yearly tradition of hiking along the Nova Scotia coast with @karentogo and @hammerhead at Easter. In this photo, @mypictograph, @brienne, and @celine are looking mighty fine!

Thanks to a huge warehouse sale at La Cordee, I now have a new pair of snowshoes for next winters adventures.

Day 31 - 09 April/Tuesday Hiked 6.1 miles to Fontana Dam Visitors Center at mile 166.2 and rode in a shuttle for 209 miles to pickup our car (thank you Will and Lisa!). Soon we will return to Illinois and resume the relatively fast pace of real world, off-trail life.