Pano of Whanganui
Distance cycled: 45km from Whanganui to Bulls, North island, New Zealand.
Average speed: 14.7km/h
Moving Time: 3h03m
Elevation Ascended: 343m
Total Distance on Current trip: 2,036km
Distance until I have cycled the circumference of Earth: 6,371km
Leaving the Hird's family home in whanganui we set off down highway 3 towards Levin where we had a place to stay with one of Marlieke's travel friends from Indonesia. The road wasn't in any way interesting with plenty of traffic and parts of it with no shoulder whatsoever and with dreary overcast weather and a consistent head wind we decided to spend the night in an interesting town called "Bulls". Bulls had an unusual appeal but an appeal to stop passing by tourists to stop for an ice cream of photograph some of the ridiculous slogans for the town eg. Bulls, a town like no udder or its unbelieva'bull', things like this and the multitude of murals on the sides of buildings that were bull related.
Anyway, Marlieke and I wanted to spend a night in a room together as it was Valentine's Day and we were somewhat fed up with cycling in the conditions of the day so we had a motel for a very reasonable $70 for the evening.
With a few bottles of wine, some nibbles and several episodes of our favorite television show (Modern Family) we stayed indoors.
These pics were taken the previous day
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