Today is day 27 of our trip and we’re in St. Arnaud for two rest days. We just reunited with Sarah yesterday. She had to, at least temporarily, abandon her walking due to the start of patella tendonitis after negotiating the massive hill up and down, just before Havelock. She heroically still completed the Pelorus River track and we got to Nelson for resupply and two rest days (days 16 and 17). The next few entries are impressions of various days from my last post until now.

Time’s a funny thing (2)

This journey

day 19

walking the length of 1/2 of NZ

takes time!

Personal

Physical

Emotional,

Planning

Organising

Resourcing

Walking

Unpacking

Eating

Sleeping

Packing again

Planning for water, food, the route, the weather, our bodies,

Adjusting to change,

Takes

A lot

Of time