December 9, 2009
They say when something works don’t change it. Adhering to this philosophy it was another 6am wake up call for us this morning! Not long after waking up we had breakfast cooking on the Waikare School stove, an awesome feed of scrambled eggs and baked beans. With full stomachs it was then into the cars [...]
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December 9, 2009
Today we woke up at our normal 6am again with the aim of heading back into Kerikeri for a transition breakfast organised by ANZ. By 7.10 we were all packed up and ready to go and by 7.30 we were back at The Bakehouse, where we had met last night. ANZ were awesome hosts, friendly [...]
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December 3, 2009
While Jamie battled the airlines to get to Wellington and back, Nick and I headed to Whangarei to catch up on some zzz’s and get hold of a much (!) welcome shower.
Feeling refreshed we jumped back in the truck (we have narrowed the names down, will let you know when we choose) and headed back [...]
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December 3, 2009
When Kevin peered into my tent at 4 30 saying that is was time to get up, it felt like only 15 minutes earlier we were racing towards Nick’s tent to save him from his own nightmare. I had atop drive Kevin back to Awanui (9km north of Kaitaia) so he could drive to Auckland [...]
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December 2, 2009
It was a great night in the forest behind 90-mile beach – our first night out on the trail. We were 53km down the beach and had set up camp in a little clearing among the trees – accommodation hosted by Aotearoa!
With the Kiwi Can students leaving in the bus from the beach earlier in the day, [...]
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November 27, 2009
With the start of The Big Walk just 3 days away the last pieces of preparation puzzle are falling into place. One of the most recent developments has been the adding of promotional signs to the two Britz 4WDs and trailers. This was done by another one of our fantastic sponsors, SpeedySigns Albany, which, true to [...]
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Hi Jan, thanks so much for thinking of us! I am all organised for getting through to the next leg ...