October 17 - Tuesday
Auckland, NZ
A beautiful sunny, albeit windy day. We were going to take our bikes for their first real ride today. Jon and I were both itching to go riding and had missed pedalling while we were in Asia. Tortured with the bikes sitting in front of us in our room waiting to be ridden I couldn't ride since it's against the law to ride without a helmet and ours was with our lost luggage and the last thing we needed was a fine.
We had some errands to do first and decided to 'split up' to get things done. Jon rode up to one of the bike stores to get a pump, some tail lights and a little bag for under the saddle while I called Mary and Jenn, and reposted our Wwoofing write up to let hosts know we had made it to town. I had to leave Mary a voice mail but was able to get through to Jenn, we had a wonderful, conversation - it was good to hear her voice as she had been pretty sick and I had been quite worried and it turned out - rightly so - but she's on the mend which is great! We both agreed it was good to hear each other's voice.
Jon came home, we tried to contact some wwoofing hosts before leaving on our bike ride.
I had gotten a bike map of south Auckland at the I-site while at the airport so we had a route all ready to ride on that would take us along the coast of the many bays of Auckland.
