Anyone who’s been reading our blog lately will have noticed that our thoughts are currently obsessed with the transition from full-time travel to coming home. How to adapt and what focus we want our lives to take in the future is a constant point of pondering lately. http://media.blubrry.com/travellingtwo/p/stage.travellingtwo.com/AudioClips/travellingtwo-show24-headinghome.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes […] Read More »
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Behind the scenes
So, while we’ve been pedalling and blogging, we’ve also been doing a few things behind the scenes that we haven’t really talked about on here much. And since we’re going to be busy packing up our bikes for our flight to America, cleaning all our gear and doing all sorts of other boring but necessary […] Read More »
To the end of New Zealand
492km Raetihi to Te Kouma For most cyclists, New Zealand ends at Bluff, the little township at the bottom end of the South Island that faces out to the ocean and the icy world of Antarctica. But for us, New Zealand finished on the Coromandel Peninsula, in the tranquil sheltered bay of Te Kouma. We […] Read More »
Cycling through the sounds
264km Seddon to Picton It’s nearly time for us to start heading north, across Cook Strait and then up the North Island to Auckland, where in just over a month’s time we’ll board a plane for San Francisco. But we don’t want to get on that ferry. Not yet. We think the picture says it […] Read More »
Too much stuff
274km Fox Glacier to Wanaka It took a full day of rain (and in NZ a ‘full day of rain’ means 12+ hours of the wet stuff) before the heavens finally dried up on Monday morning, leaving our soggy tent in the middle of one big puddle. The evening before was marked by the very […] Read More »