Tag: Palmerston North
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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…
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Palmerston North
Since a lot of people follow this blog by getting email digests and don’t really see the comments, I wanted to share the following from Anna, a friend from Boulder, who commented that: “Did you hear that the garbage dump in Palmerston North is called Mt. Cleese? Because Monty Python’s John Cleese said: “If you…
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Along a river valley to Palmerston North
After having some coffee/tea and muesli in our cabin at Makoura, we coasted down the sweeping bends to the river level below, and then began the first big climb of the day. We were on gravel roads for about half the day, and so I deflated our tires to about 20 PSI before leaving to…