Tag: Invercargill
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Invercargill Transport Museum

Before leaving Invercargill, we spent the morning at the famous Phil Richardson transport museum there, which has an AMAZING collection of cars, trucks, gas pumps, and other memorabilia related to cars and trucks. Jay is a big car fan, but we also enjoyed the amazing collection. It’s hard to really focus on anything specific there,…
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To Bluff! A chapter finished…

Starting on January 15, 57 days ago, we took a bus from Auckland to Kaitaia and cycled to Ahipara, where we would start this adventure. For these 2,700km (1,680 miles) climbing about 30,000 meters (97,000 feet), we’ve been aiming ourselves to Bluff. Along the way, we’ve seen many sides of NZ, much of it that…
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Mossburn to Invercargill: almost to the bottom!

We are on the last push to the end. We did our second consecutive day of over 100 km, which we had never done before. Some of it is that we are generally going downhill from Mossburn to Bluff (Invercargill is about 20 miles from Bluff), and also that we are so close that we…