Time for reflection

 

Gathering of the clan as we set off for Sth island

Our ferry and a tandem

This guy on the unicycle is a legend, a wellington doctor . Don’t know how he does it.

Lyall up early and cycled from cabin camp ground in Petone to the Blue bridge terminal building. Left early and didn’t want to miss if had flat tyre. My family will laugh as that is a tale of grandmother’s thinking on both sides.

Two weeks eels ago we arrived at the cape in the dark preparing for our journey.

Lots of stories Katter we are preparing for the South Island chapter of our adventure.

Parts of that two weeks are now sadly a fog but I am sure little bits will resurrect but with perhaps not the precision had I had time to write them down whilst fresh in my mind.

I reflect on the determination I have seen if people grinding themselves up hills and the sweating bodies in the relentless heat, but the hill tops come and the hill tops go. You eventually get over the top, a breeze catches you, cools you down and away you go again. 

Meet really interesting people, have deep political discussions, talks on science and nature , eaten so many calories and drank heaps of water 💦 . Steve Broderick is my current science teacher and is going to explain to me the venturi principle when he has completed his  sedoko. The mind has time to go to different places and back and forth. Probably in my nothing cupboard if a brain for most of the time, as time just disappears. Where does it go. Into the past us where, and sometime into the distant past. 

4 am wake ups and out of beds are my go to. My best days have been when I have out of bed on the road outside of the heat. 10 or 11 am starts are not for me as you are straight into the heat. Weird really because normally I don’t like the cold, And definitely like to cuddle up beside a warm fire in the winter, but too long and cabin fever kicks in. When running, biking, playing rugby the cool or wet is a great place to be- steady on Lyall Great , well it not bad anyway as you are outside, it’s all good. Oh wow did I just type that.

It’s rained twice on the tour so far, at night after our first day whilst tucked away inside at ahipara and now as we are inside in the ferry. To hard rain , hold on will take a picture.