When I woke up the outside of my tent was frozen and so I decided to wait for the sun to thaw the tent and me… Well worth the extra sleep:
Interesting day… Started out amazing. This was my toilet view this morning 😉
First foot injuries are coming – I guess ths holes in my shoes letting to many rocks and sand in…
We left at 9am and hiked for about 7 miles before we got to the first reliable water source – a faucet next to a fire station. While we were having a snack it started raining on us. The first real rain in four weeks! We waited a bit in the toilet tolet let the rain pass but it would not stop completely. The weather alternated berween…
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But most of the time it looked like this:
And that’s how we felt:
The good thing about “bad” weather is rhat you put down your head and start walking – fast, because you get cold. And you also don’t feel like breaks because you get cold. So we put our hoodies up and started walking. I liked it. It was a day of long and fast hiking with a constant up and down and also a lot of time to let thoughts wander around or just to be empty.
Fun fact of the day – my first roll of toilet paper lasted 28 days 😂😂😂
Another cool thing about hiking and the hiker community is that your background doesn’t matter. Where else would you find a group of a teacher, lawyer, corporate guy, student, hotel door man & wildlife therapist interacting with each other? The only thing which matters is if you are a good hiker or not! Do you follow the rules of LNT (leave no trace), do you have a good and positive attitude and maybe do you have spare food 😉 It’s cool to be out of the world again where status, money and comparison are very important.
Love my life! #neverstopexploring #hikerliferules #dowhatmakegood
Figured the delay in getting another update was because your fingers are taking a few days to thaw out from Day 28’s overnight chill??!! 🙂 We’re following progress avidly – all the blue sky makes us a bit jealous as we are wet and cold as winter fast approaches 🙂
So great to know you are following! Did you see my new skirt? And that they have mud? 😂😂😂
Yep – noticed some mud (sort of!) and the skirt in a snowstorm! Also looks like the same old trusty yellow gaiters?! We get the feeling that it is more of a social experience than a wilderness hike – you meet upo with more people in a day than we have on the whole TA so far!! Glad you’re enjoying it. You wouldn’t want to be here in NZ hiking now – our first real polar blast came through over the last few days and now clear skies with -5 and -6 degree temps being common in central Otago at the moment – glad we are home and not still trying to hike through snow and ice 🙂
Hahahaha – yep, 4 meters of Kiwi land 😂😂😂
I finally found a rain skirt which is almost as good as yours. But it would never survive the Kiwi bush. If I come back you have to show me how to do my own one!
You are so right. We have talked about it a lot and called it a social experiment as well. It’s very different but with it’s own beauty. But I guess it’s going to get different once we hit the mountains. We have to hike at night here because of the heat 😳😳😳
A big hug to NZ. Take care you two. Miss you!