Legs and Borders

"Ultralight, cold at night" Didi, a hikers proverb (apparently) A crazy day of hiking! The trail was going through a rain forrest and the path was extremely muddy, sometimes up to a knee high, it took me 8 hours to go through 16 kilometres of it but it was well worth it, I've never walked through such a terrain, forest was extremely dense and surprisingly quiet, it rained for few hours but it didn't really influence the condition of the trail. At the end I couldn't even take my shoes off to wash them in the stream, I had to untie them and force it off my feet. I managed to reach Mangamuka just before the local convenience shop (or dairy as it's called by locals) has been shut at 5pm, bought a coke, peanut butter ice-cream and portion of chips and paid 10$ for a night at the local campground by the radio station. I've been joined by Miriam from Switzerland and not long after Didi and To...

"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...