Bruce Hopkins wants to take the ashes of his dad and brother home to Rakiura/Stewart Island. He’s just taking the long way to get there. The long, long way.
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Week two and the honeymoon is already over between Bruce Hopkins and New Zealand’s trail Te Araroa.
Having suffered the length of 90 Mile Beach, this week his big challenges are the high hills, deep mud and the “bloody gravel roads!” of the forests of Northland.
Bruce cuts inland and heads east, searching for Kerikeri and eventually, his old home town of Russell in the Bay of Islands.
Bruce Hopkins Trail Diary - Week Two 21-28 October 2017 Puketi – Helena Bay.
"Some bloody full on days now done. Cannot express how happy I am to be having a rest day tomorrow with one of the numerous hard sections of Te Araroa now done.
Already these last ten days will stay powerfully in my physical & mental memory forever.
"I am personally pushed to various limits every single day thus far, so looking forward to being blister free!"
"It is already shaping up to be one of the most amazing experiences of my life. To cap today off my iPhone died! "
"Only about 2500 kilometres to go..."
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