by Corinne | Nov 24, 2019 | Touring updates, Trips
November Quickie – Awakino 2019 Our annual “it’s been too long since we had a decent holiday and let us go ride our bikes” weekend rocked around none too early this year. The Awakino hotel had been calling out to me as I passed every couple of months over the last...
by Corinne | Jun 14, 2019 | Trips
We must have pleased the weather gods for this one. Saturday was a much better day than predicted as we headed south out of Rotorua, looped east heading for Murapara then north to Whakatane, then back through a tiny-but-sealed back road to the lakes and back over the...
by Corinne | Apr 20, 2019 | Trips
This trip had it all – Southern Hospitality, Northern temperatures, riders that did the whole trip, riders that did one island or the other, old friends and new friends that joined us for lunch or dinner or a night along the way, road closures, torrential rain, and...
by Corinne | Nov 12, 2017 | Trips
Talk about a quickie – 1.5 hours from home and we’d arrived – Welcome to Tairua! But, it was a good choice given that all except us had been on the road for 6-8 hours from the lower North Island. After the usual kerfuffle with rooms that is rapidly becoming part of...
by Corinne | Oct 2, 2017 | Trips
Time to stretch our legs a little, so we headed to Europe. There was quite a bit of planning went into this trip as we wanted to combine a scenic route with scoping options for future trips – finding out what worked for us and what didn’t when riding overseas. We know...
