Touring New Zealand Day 12: Christchurch
We had a cat helping us unpack and re-pack our belongings as we switch our primary mode of transport around New Zealand. As you can see, he really wasn’t of much help.
Category Archives: New Zealand
Cycling New Zealand Days 10 and 11: Lake Tekapo to Twizel to Christchurch
Day 11: Twizel to Christchurch 11 December 2010 8 km (5 mi) Yesterday evening we made a big decision. We decided that we are simply not comfortable riding the roads of New Zealand. It’s not the mileage or the terrain but rather the traffic and lack of a shoulder that present the biggest challenge, and …
Cycling New Zealand Days 8 and 9: Fairlie to Lake Tekapo
Day 9: Lake Tekapo 09 December 2010 Rest Day We took a day off the bikes today. Partly to rest our nerves but mostly to rest our bums and legs. I’m not sure if we accomplished the latter, as Gina decided we should hike up to the summit of Mt. John. It was about a …
Cycling New Zealand Days 6 and 7: Geraldine to Fairlie
Day 7: Pleasant Point to Fairlie 07 December 2010 48 km (29 mi) Last night at our cozy cabin we did laundry. The difficulty of doing laundry when it’s raining out is that there’s then nowhere for it to dry. We made do with stringing a line between the bunk beds. This worked great until …
Cycling New Zealand Days 1 through 5: Christchurch to Geraldine
Day 5: Methven to Geraldine 05 December 2010 80 km (50 mi) Today we entered unchartered territory for New Zealand – we eclipsed our Day 1 record of 55 km and hit 80 km for the day. This was mostly out of necessity, with few to zero places to stay between our starting and desired …
Day 0: Christchurch to, well, Christchurch
We’re calling today Day 0 of our NZ bike trip, as we plan to leave tomorrow, bar any additional unforseen illnesses. Today’s focus was preparation, preparation, preparation. First, we prepared to leave the house. This was only the second day of outdoor air for Dena since arriving 5 days ago. Once out, we bussed into …
Getting Started in Christchurch, NZ
Our pedaling adventure officially began with the short, 3-hour flight from Sydney to Christchurch (with a special shout-out to Neighbor Cynthia who, that morning, played the all-too-familiar role of Chauffeur Cynthia). The view of the Southern Alps from high above got us to thinking “Hmm, how will we get across those?”. But not to worry …
Letting the Chips Fall
Some of you may be wondering why the Burritowagon blog has been so quiet lately. It’s not because we’ve been up to nothing, more that we’ve been up to something that has taken the past few months to fall into place. But now that it has, it’s time to get blogging again and explain our …