Te Araroa (day 26) - Mangahuia Campsite to War Monument / mile 740
"If you'll piss on that lemon tree, it will make it grow faster." Roger Tongariro National Park has ended and the connecting trail to the Wanganui National Park today was a bunch of roadwalking. It started with finding the way out of the forrest onto a busy asphalt road leading to National Park Village, the last place I could get my resupply before entering the park and spending there approximately five days. I arrived at the village at 8am, and spent around 80$ on breakfast and food for the upcoming days. I also met Frogga from Australia, I saw him before when he was flip flopping north, trying to make up miles in the bad weather. He used to hike in USA, we spend almost an hour reminiscing adventures we had there. Around 9:30am I decided to move on. Trail was going through the forrest on a gravel road then after couple of hours it opened up from one side to a picturesque countryside with a lot of green hills and meadows. Then after few miles it wa...