The last day

Today is the last day of our road trip up to the top of the North Island and back again. We spent last night at the Skotel on the slopes of Mt. Ruapehu. It’s lovely here and this was our treat night for the last night of our travels.

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We had a lovely meal last night, and a nice breakfast this morning. The room is also nice and comfortable with a view of the mountain. We can’t actually see the mountain as it has only just stopped raining. But it might clear up enough before we leave to see it.

We both got some sleep last night which should see us right for the 4-5 hours of driving we have to do to get home. We’ll be stopping off half-way to have a coffee with my folks, but apart from that, we’ll have the foot hard down to get home.

I am so looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight.

It has been a fun trip and I got to visit some places I haven’t been before, and return to places I went to as a kid and see how they have changed.

We didn’t get to do everything we wanted, but we still got to do plenty. And that’s got to be good enough.

I wasn’t too sure how my wife would handle the travelling, she is not much of a traveller (yet). But she is already talking about planning for next Christmas, so I guess that’s a good sign.

We did enjoy the drive in our new car. It just seemed to love the open road, and even after driving for hours and hours I didn’t feel cramped or the need to get out and stretch all the time. The car definitely made the trip a lot easier for me that it might have been otherwise.

So now it is time to pack the car for the last time and hit the road south. Soon we will be driving through the rolling fields and river valleys of my youth. It will be good to see them again as we head home.

All I need now is a couple of days to recover from the holiday and then we’ll hit 2018 at full speed.

Bring it on!

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