Today weather : 13 -20c Raining all day
Time on Bike : 6 hr 20 min
Ave speed : 13.6 kmh Max :63.0 kmh
Ave Climb : 3% Max :10%
Trip Altitude : 663 m Max : 301 m
Today spend : 56.7 nzd Total : 126.2 nzd
The weather forecast for today is rainy,so myself and Eva roll out early at 8am after saying goodbye to our host Helen and David. Back to the main road of SH2 and then a left turn into route 36 ,highly recommended by Helen. It was all the way climbing gradually with a mixing of some rolling ups and downs. Eva was doing fine always going in front of me while I happily following behind her.The rain started at about 10am and we came to our 1st rest stop in Tect All Terrain Park clocking 38km,Eva changed from a short to a long pant to avoid the cold from the rain.We have our lunch in Rotorua Cambodian restaurant, being hungry I ordered a fried fish,chicken meat cake and a short black for 9 nzd . From here we parted each other as Eva has an appointment with another WS and I will ride further to another free campsite on road SH 30 on the way to Lake Taupo. Stopping by an Indian supermarket to buy some groceries and a bag of tobacco for a total of 47 nzd. But the rain didn't look like stopping,and the chill from the rain really got into me as i started to look for an emergency wild camp. When i saw a bus stop with just enough space for my tent,i quickly grabbed the opportunity as it is really hard to find a roof by the roadside here.It feel so much better when you changed to a dry clothing, boiled up a bowl of maggi mee and a cup of hot coffee resting in your comfort sleeping bag inside your tent. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
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| Helen with her pijamas sending us off |
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| On the way to Rotorua |
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| Eva is a brave and powerful touring syt |
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| How stylist and sexy she is on the bike |
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| Soon I will be bored see them |
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| Eva is always ahead of me |
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| Everyone of them is watching me |
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| Mangapouri Gorge |
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| Happy to see a downhill sign |
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| Right turn to Rotorua |
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| Scenery on the road |
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| Lunch stop in Ngongotaha restaurant runs by Cambodian ( coffee 3,fish 3 chicken3) total 9 nzd |
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| See the person ,share the road |
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| Time to say goodbye to Eva and thanks for the company |
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| Bought some camping foods |
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| Approaching Ngongotaha |
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| Turning right on direction to Taupo |
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| Many of these beautiful yellow flowers by the roadsides |
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| Many of these beautiful yellow flowers by the roadsides |
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| It rain the whole day |
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| This bus stop is not suitable for camp,shifted to another one away from the main road |
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| What a view |
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| Bus stop camp, away from the main road |
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| Breakfast of black coffee and maggi mee |
