Well, We did another trip up to Auckland. This is becoming to be a habit.

This time it was to help Mum and Dad out for a few days so they could rest and relax while recovering from their mishap on the motor bike.

We left Palmy on Friday morning at around 10am. Over all it was a pretty good drive up. Stopped in Taupo for lunch by the lake. It was a really hot day. We went the normal way through Hamilton (Never again) we normally bypass Cambridge and Hamilton as it’s a bitch of a place to get through.

We did have a snarl up of Traffic on the southern motorway just past Manakau City. We came to a complete stop on a 4 lane motorway no less. Traffic crawled until around Fanshaw street and eased off as we got over the bridge.

We arrived at Mum and Dad’s and had Pizza Hut for dinner. Didn’t really do anything too exciting, just helped out with housework, washing etc..  Both mum and dad are well on the mend which was nice to see. Still in a lot of pain, but being hit by a car while on a motor bike will do that. Dads broken ribs and collar bone seem to be on the mend.

We decided we had to come home on Wednesday 26th November as we had work and other things to do at home.

Leaving Auckland at about 10am I decided to take the Tauranga turn off which brought us out at Tirau. Well, we must have hit 10 sets of road works where they had men on stop/go signs and the road was down to one lane. Fortunately it didn’t have too much of an impact on the total travel time. We bought lunch in Matamta but the rest area just out of town was blocked off so we had to wait ’till we got to Tirau before we could eat.

Once we hit Taupo we were cruising behind a Freight Lines truck which was good. He made good time even on the hills and winding roads (must have been empty) We played cat and mouse with him for a while due to us stopping for toilet breaks We passed him in the desert road and again just out of Mangaweka (stopped at the cookie time plane to get ice blocks (but they didn’t have any)

All in all, the trip up to Auckland and Home again was a good drive, we had the usual moron on the road who passed on blind corners, Unsurprisingly they were either young males or middle aged men who were obviously trying to make up for a lack of something down stairs

Got home at about 5pm and learnt my lesson not to leave the swimming pool unattended for too long   We cheated and got KFC for dinner. Don’t know if it was just the fact I was hungry but it actually tasted nice.

Ok so this is not very technical.

But I have to agree with what the Truckies in New Zealand are doing with their efforts to protest against the Governments increase of Road User Charges.

Read the 3 News Article for more information.