Tag: Eketahuna
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A fine day: Eketahuna to Martinborough
It’s about 57 miles to ride from Eketahuna to Martinborough, with relatively little elevation gain at about 2,000 feet of climbing. In addition, we had a steady tailwind throughout the day which was great. We had about 1/3 on gravel roads so that slowed us down a bit but we still pulled into Martinborough around…
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“Kiwis are really nice people, until they get behind the wheel of a car!”
Leaving any urban area is hard. Traffic can be an issue, especially if you share a narrow road with minimal shoulders trafficked by heavy trucks and impatient cars, all of which we experienced leaving Palmerston North. Forty-five years ago when I was last in New Zealand, my friend Gary Adams remarked that Kiwis were really…