Bruce Hopkins wants to take his dad and brother's ashes back home to Rakiura/Stewart Island. He’s just taking the long way to get there. The long, long way.
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Before. Photo: RNZ/Priscilla Northe/Striped Trees Productions.
A marooned TA walker. Photo: Bruce Hopkins
Trail Diary by Justin Gregory, co-producer of The Long Way Home.
"For this latest episode, we’ve done something a bit different. Bruce is off Te Araroa – New Zealand’s trail for a few days to go to his son’s wedding and do a bit of personal admin, so we thought this would be a great opportunity to sit down in an RNZ studio and catch up.
"We crowd sourced some of the questions for this interview from the podcast’s listeners and so what follows is a mix of my questions and yours. For the full interview, watch the video in this link.
"When Bruce arrives, it’s immediately obvious that Te Araroa has changed him; he’s skinny, a bit agitated at being indoors and has a gaze that looks past you into the far, far distance."
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Produced by Bruce Hopkins and Justin Gregory. Executive Producer Tim Watkin.
