Wednesday, May 6, 2009

DAY OFF

Wednesday 4th March 2009

Day 4: Taylors Pass to Blenheim

We were up & away early today, both slept ok - noisy night of bird scarers going off all around us it felt like we were in the middle of a war zone at times!
Only a 30km ride in front of us today which turned out to be a really nice cruisy ride..
Only 1 biggish hill climb & the rest us a undulating road to Blenheim.
Arrived at the Blenheim Top 10 Campground at about 10am & were greeted by Chile who gave us hot drinks & home maid biscuits.
We found our campsite next to the river, had showers did laundry & just chilled out lying in the sun before heading into town to do some chores & have a bite to eat.
Subway & KFC Chips were on the menu for lunch today - The weather in Blenheim is amazing sunny blue sky so sitting in the sun eating lunch was just perfect.
It is nice to be having a day off just chilling out.
Dinner was a pizza & beers at a nice we pizza restaurant in town..
Hot spa was also on the menu for later that night.

RIDE TIME:1.57
DISTANCE: 33.48km
AVERAGE SPEED:17.1km
TOTAL TIME FROM A TO B:2.30hours

3 comments:

Unknown said...

You guys rock and are an inspiration to us both

Unknown said...

You guys are amazing!monson

Trystan said...

Hi here,

greetings from Rawlins WY!

as for your questions:
- insurace, get full medical, not worth messing around in the USA...make sure they know your trip and the remoteness etc...Tower wouldn't cover me, but I got mine through ACE in NZ
- stuff, take less. Straight up, we are constantly trying to shave down weigh, the real luxury lies in carrying less....you can always buy things along the way
- bears, we all have a small can of bear spray attached to our frames...

Best of luck, we hit our half way point today in the Great Basin!