After nearly a year of discussing, convincing, saving (well probably more spending than saving!), reading, packing practice and trying to think of everything, we’re less than 24 hours out from departure.
The day seems long ago that I came to this epiphany while looking through a motorcycle magazine, and to actually have gotten to this point without wavering has been an achievement in itself.
To all our friends and family we will not see this Christmas, we love you and wish you the very best, we’ll be thinking of you. It will be very unusual to not see your smiling faces this year, and this will be the largest price we pay for this trip.
To the family we will see, it’s been so long I hope we are not strangers.
To all the morons, idiots, unobservants and ignorants on the road out there, please look for it in yourself to take it easy and lets hope our journeys do not intersect.
To everyone who is just here to see what we see and read what we write, I hope I can do this country’s beauty justice with my limited writing and photography skills, and hold your attention through the next three weeks. I would like to say thank you for taking the time to come here in the first place, even before we begin.
I hope everyone enjoys the winding down of 2007 and the dawn of 2008. We shall tread carefully around the shores of Aotearoa and return next year, a little more educated about the place we live and love I am sure.
Think of us when you raise a toast this year, for we shall be on The Great New Zealand Motorcycle Adventure, but will not forget to do the same for you.
Mike & Myra.
Planned Route, clockwise from Auckland to Auckland.
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