2018 TT2000 - Day 9
Day 9" What happened to Day 8"
Well...My plans had included a trip over to Golden Bay to explore a bit more gravel. But that friendly little cyclone had hammered the stuffing out of the area. The Takaka Hill Road was closed for a number of days due to slips (trapping my brother-in-law at his bach) and washed out a bridge on one of the roads I was going to go exploring on.
By the time I hit Richmond the road had been cleared and Dan was home but the road was only being opened for essential traffic twice a day. I thought that I'd best keep out of people's way so they could carry on the clean-up and look after the locals first.
Therefore the day was spent in Richmond with a bit of tripping around with Dan and catching up with my sister and nieces. We did manage to visit a great bike shop which had a number of tasty bikes to drool on - one even had a supercharger but I did not have 55k on me...
And so, Day 9 was my last riding day and obviously it involved getting me back up North and back to my own bed.
I had also made sure that my route included a little gravel on the way to Picton. But unfortunately, after crossing the Whangamoa, when I turned off onto Hori Bay road only to find signs up saying that the road was closed due to, you guessed it, weather damage - bummer!
So, no more gravel to finish the trip off. I stopped briefly in Havelock for fuel and that is where I caught up to the demon on the DR - dragging his sur...
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