Wow, what a ride! And summarized as eloquently as... Pictures are beautiful. Hard not to be totally envious, very inspiring!
On Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 5:57:07 AM UTC-4, John Rinker wrote: > > New Zealand. Aotearoa. Sweet as! It is a place so breathtakingly beautiful > locals feel no need to complete similes. > > > Twenty-one days of riding the Bay of Plenty and Eastern Cape region, over > 1200 kms of the most isolated roads and tracks on the North Island, and I > experienced a multitude of similes best left open-ended. I pedalled under > skies as blue as, and rested during nights as dark as. I slept under stars > as bright as, and marveled at a Milky Way, well, as milky as. Wandered > through forests as dense and primordial as. I lay under ferns as green as > and tried to wrap my arms around trees as old as. I struggled up hills, > steep as, and flew down them as fast as. I swam in rivers as clear as, and > fought, to no avail, with trout as strong as. I ambled sandy beaches as > picturesque as, and I was welcomed by people as warm and as generous as. > > > The Eastern Cape is the least traveled part of the North Island offering > some of the most remote riding. While the Kiwis or the Maori would not call > them mountains, there are plenty of hills with sustained climbing and > rewarding views. Much of my route, once away from the coast, was through > 'mountainous', forested and very sparsely populated backcountry. Few > people, if any, ever cycle in some of these places (so I was told), but I > was very surprised to not have seen a single cycle tourer even on the > roads. In the town of Opotiki, I did see a fully loaded cyclist only to > discover after catching up with him that he was the postman on his rounds. > > > Someone somewhere must have at sometime said it of someplace, but New > Zealand is a land one simply cannot visit once in a lifetime and be > fulfilled. > > > For a more detailed look here's a link to my Gaia 'tracks' for the entire > ride with photo waypoints along the way: > > > Gaia GPS New Zealand Tracks > <https://www.gaiagps.com/datasummary/folder/1c9e3aa4-8ae3-4d5e-a07a-68ebfe3c8305/?lat=-37.4883&lon=176.1337&zoom=5.8&layer=mapquestaerial> > > > [image: IMG_0012.jpg] > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
