Day 7:  Pleasant Point to Fairlie 07 December 2010 48 km (29 mi) Last night at our cozy cabin we did laundry.  The difficulty of doing laundry when it’s raining out is that there’s then nowhere for it to dry.  We made do with stringing a line between the bunk beds.  This worked great until …

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Day 5:  Methven to Geraldine 05 December 2010 80 km (50 mi) Today we entered unchartered territory for New Zealand – we eclipsed our Day 1 record of 55 km and hit 80 km for the day.  This was mostly out of necessity, with few to zero places to stay between our starting and desired …

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