1st stop is Napier tomorrow then around the Gisborne Coast and up to the Coromandel.
I received a beautiful book from my workmates - with poems and paintings of the Mackenzie Basin, this one I thought was fitting for the first stages of the adventure:
WALKING IN - Brian Turner
The country throbs
and all that is dead
is buried by all that's
so convincingly alive.
We sweat. The dusty earth
believes we are crying
yet the river sings.
We hate the steep bits,
love the easy grades
down from the bluffs,
the way the body
handles it all
as long as we don't
over-reach ourselves.
Let's go on reaching.
We carry all we need,
we think we know
where we're heading
and why, the two words
dwarf all others: living, here.
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