Now we’re recuperating.  We’re energized, but pooped.

We spent the early evening sorting photos, but it’s getting late and we want to do the trip justice, so four days and three nights of photos and stories will have to wait.  OK, here’s one:

OK, you really have to click on this to see the tunnel on the left that we came through.

For now, we’ve done 169 kilometers of mountain biking in three nights/four days, across the Otago District over what was formerly a train route.  It was beautiful, it rained, it was windy, cloudy, steep and gorgeous.  All at different times in the ride.  We met some fantastic people, stayed at some great inns and saw scenery that you just don’t see speeding past in a car, plane or train.

Speaking of “train”, tomorrow we’re taking a train from here (Middlemarch, more or less) to Dunedin on the East coast where we’ll stay the night and then come back the next day.  It’s supposed to be a stunningly beautiful trip and is called; “One of the world’s great train rides”.  Well, we’ll see and we’ll let you know, as well as update this blog with lots of new pictures of the adventures of the last five or so days.