Been away for a quick 4 days on the road. Typical good timing, last week was fine but when I go it was mostly wet roads with some VERY heavy rain.Left home on Sunday heading North on State Highway 1. Turned off at Te Kauwhata across to Highway 2 then right until Miranda road.Then on up to The Bombays.
From there was straight up 1 to The Puhoi Pub for a compulsory stop.
Then on to Whangarei (wet all the way).
Stayed the night in a backpackers with gear all over trying to dry it out.
The next day was actually fine bar one big down pour.
Headed off towards Kawakawa then turned towards Paihia.
From there was on to Haruru Falls and out to Highway 10.
Just before Orotere turned off and followed the scenic route around. 40k's of twisty s and amazing scenery.
Back to the main road and on to Manganui for lunch.
Next it was on to Awanui then on up to Cape Reinga, except I didn't make it. At Waitiki landing where there is the last fuel stop, turned out to be closed so had to turn around and limp back to Awanui for fuel.By then I'd had enough and stopped for the night at Kaitaia.
Next day I headed South and went out to Rangiora then onto Panguru at which point I turned around and doubled back gas again being an issue. I didn't use the car ferry but chose to go around the long way through Kaikohe and onto Opononi for lunch.
From here on it got pretty wet and was finding taking gloves off for pics a real pain, so no more pictures of this trip I,m afraid.
I headed down through the Waipoua Forest to Dargaville then on towards Whangarei but turned North again at Tangowahine and went up through Twin bridges to Kaikohe again then on down to Whangarei for the night.
The next morning was heading South towards Home with a detour out to Waipu cove then back onto Highway 1 and home.
Covered a distance of 1560km at an average of 16km/liter (approx 36 miles/gallon for you in the US).
Even though it was wet mostly, I had a ball. This Speedmaster is just sooo comfortable, even out did my previous Trike in that regard.
