ROXBURG TO MILTON
No worries mate if you don't recognize any of these town names. They are just stops on our way to Dunedin. But then you probably haven't heard of that place either. Dunedin is an old Scottish city with about 150,000 people in it and we look forward to some New Zealand culture over and above a local pub and a library with one computer and dial-up speed.
All kidding aside, today's ride only got me off my bike once to take a picture. Most of the landscape that went by was familiar - been there seen that - but the ride was a fast and a fun one. We stayed in our higher gears most of the way and covered almost one hundred kilometers in record time.
Also, there was a very high threat of rain this morning which never materialized so we were lucky on that front. It is very wet outside as I type this message so we our luck holds for tomorrow as well.
We tried to call home to check on the score of the hockey game as we were on the road at the time, but no one seemed to be able to answer the phones. I guess you were all yelling so loudly that you couldn't hear them ringing. Anyway, what a great finish for Canada. We're watching the highlights tonight from our motel room.
We will again rejoin the ocean coast tomorrow as we haven't seen the ocean for several days - ever since we left Queenstown. But we've seen lots of water in the form of many very beautiful lakes and rivers.
In Dunedin we expect to find a faster connection. We are sitting on a whole lot of cool videos that can't be uploaded based on conncection speeds. We'll see. If not, you're gonna have to wait until we return to Vancouver. I expect you'll have it all cleaned up by then.
STATS:
Distance: 96.7 km
Time: 4:42
Avg: 20.4 kph
Max 71.0 kph
Temp: 12-29C
Weather: Light Cloud
