Longstride

After two weeks of hiking (and cycling) since my last break, it is time to take another.

• I got breakfast at Big Fig. The pancake (singular) was good, but the portion was way smaller than I expected.
• I did laundry at the nearby gas station laundromat. The hostel’s laundry service, was backlogged until sometime tomorrow, so now that wasn’t even an option.
• I got lunch at Speight’s Ale House, a burger.
• I mailed my old pair of trekking poles, as well as my so-far-unused bug net back to CareFree in Auckland.
• I got a 90-minute massage. It was wonderful for (mostly) working out the giant knot I had in my shoulder, and my arm and hand feels much better now.
• I returned to Speight’s for dinner, and got chicken parmesan, which was good, though I should have known better than to expect American-sized portions. I got a cheesecake for desert, which was also good, and also smaller than I expected.
• I went to New World to get food for the next section, bringing me up to four days to get 93 km to Queenstown.