Category: Bike Tour

While Glenorchy is definitely an end-of-the-road town, Queenstown is a bit of a dead-end too. Due to long Lake Wakatipu (and all the mountain ranges everywhere), the only road access is from the east (where we came in from) or the south. But there is another way out! The Tour Aotearoa country-long bike route (and…

Day 4 Yesterday morning we looked out of our motel room window and saw new snow on the mountains. This morning, we saw a rainbow. When we first got to Glenorchy, Rett found the area so beautiful that she determined we should stay for a week. I thought that was too long, and would cut…

Back to Glenorchy Village It definitely rained overnight, so it was nice to be under a roof. I also took advantage of the quiet space to fix my again-loosened kickstand last evening, which is a whole lot of work (maybe the magic Reefton-acquired Loctite will make the fix “stick” this time!) By morning the showers…

Yesterday morning Rett got to talking with a friendly American woman, Andrea, at the campground bathroom. With her husband David, they had also traveled on their bicycles through New Zealand…42 years ago! Not only were they out blazing these trails decades ahead of us, they’re still out here doing things we hope to be able…

For three weeks since we hit the West Coast at Greymouth, we’ve been roughly following Tour Aotearoa route, the primary north-south cycling route down the length of the country. But a few days before that, we had heard our campground neighbors in Hanmer Springs watching “The Fellowship of the Ring” one night, and they showed…