Category: Bike Tour

The “don’t know how to behave in a campground” morons next to us must have eventually passed out drunk or something (or we did, from one shared bottle of wine!), because they failed to keep us up all night. Easy breakfast in the good kitchen meant we were out by 8:30am. Traffic coming into Invercargill…

The campground was already one of the most-comfortable we’ve ever stayed in, but it cemented its position by drying every bit of condensation from the tent before I packed it up. Is this a service that can be added to other campgrounds?! The ease of packing up, plus the proximity to the kitchen and bathrooms…

Nearly every day of riding in New Zealand has taken us through beautiful landscapes, but our arrival to the South Island turned the already-high level up several more notches, to the point where we’ve almost forgotten what it’s like to not ride through an epic fantasy film. That streak may now be coming to a…

Day 3 When we spent a few days in Franz Josef waiting out rain, there was a big group of chaperoned high school students staying in the backpackers accommodation with us. Each morning, they would all appear in the kitchen for breakfast, and when finished and cleaned up, they’d be nudged by their chaperones to…

We were up at first light, thinking of heading further north up the dead-end road to have breakfast where The Fellowship of the Ring once camped. But it was so cold that such complexities would have been more painful than pleasureable, so we just cooked and ate at our own camp (with Rett inside the…