Welcome to The Big Walkabout

Welcome all to Alex’s Big Walkabout. The plan is to generally head north to the tip of the North Island, before generally heading south on New Zealand’s Tour Aotearoa (the TA). That isn’t much of a plan, realistically, and that is kind of the point - to try on what it feels like to have almost no plan, and figure it out. In the last post, I was on a plane, 30,000 feet in the air somewhere in the twilight zone of 32 hours of travel from AUS to LAX, then to HKG, and finally to CHC, which was an adventure all in its own, which ended with a landing. ...

0400 is a groggy time to be waking up and headed to the airport. Excitement - or was it anxiety? - mixed with a handful of fatigue, and a pinch of serenity as I found myself driven to the airport. In the car, a large grey box was taking up almost the entire truck and back seat, and a grey black duffel bag. The box carried my bike, broken into pieces and packed in foam between two hard plastic shells. In the bag, clothes, a helmet, sleeping bag and bad, and a pot. Together, these two bags will make up the entire contents of my life for the next 11 weeks. ...

Welcome! You have found the location for my Big Walkabout. TL;DR: You can SUBSCRIBE to this page, and receive an email when I make a new post. Use the email newsletter box below to put in your email. Feel free to send this around to the folks I may have missed in my initial blast, and others who you think may be interested in following the adventure. Feel free to respond to the posts. I will be doing other things than checking email, but I would love to hear your thoughts or questions. ...