Te Araroa (day 4) - Ahipara to Saddle Road Campground / mile 85
"To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab" Fran Lebowitz My day started early with a hitchhike from Ahipara to Kaitaia, nice Maori gentleman I forgot the name of, was going to work on the other side of the coast (it only takes half and hour to get there) we talked about how the coastline is slowly being taken by the sea, at a rate of about half a metre per year and how he also went across the Western coast of USA but by car and really enjoyed it. He dropped me off by Pak'nSave second of the large supermarkets in New Zealand and the cheapest one. I resupplied for another 3 days, probably a bit too much but I couldn't say no to 1$ snickers! So I got 10 of them! I also had a filthy Maccas (it's what Kiwis call McDonalds), it wasnt as good as European ones, especially the fries were lackluster (says McD connoisseur, haha). After that I was trying to c...