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Day 41 - February 20, 2023

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Day 41:  Invercargill - Depart Our final breakfast together on the whole tour.  Stay on and explore the  region or travel on to Stewart Island.  For those heading home transfer to Invercargill airport can be arranged.  Drop offs to Queenstown or Wanaka are possible. Well it's not really Day 41, but rather two weeks since I arrived back in Canada.  It seems that the more I do these long trips, whether they be biking, hiking, or otherwise, the easier it is to get back to my "normal" life here in Calgary.  Even as the temperature dropped into the -30C range it didn't seem like too much of a shock to my system.  Of course, it helps that we're now in March and I managed to pretty much avoid most of winter from November until now.  The days are getting longer and at some point there will be some warmth in the sun.  I spent the better part of a week out in Canmore volunteering at a few IBU Cup Biathlon events.  I always find that a rewardi...
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Day 40 - February 19, 2023

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Day 40:  Invercargill - Bluff - Invercargill Did someone say something about cake?  Maybe champagne would be more appropriate as we celebrate a massive achievement - riding the length of New Zealand!  Transfer to Invercargill for the final night of the tour. Made it to the end today!  We left the hotel about 9.  A few turns to get out of the city and then a straight shot down to Bluff.  The forecast was for overcast skies, a chance of showers around noon, and strong tailwinds.  Interesting sky to our left (east) as we left town.  It's raining somewhere..... Apparently this sign is spelled correctly, and they're not meaning "weiner" pigs.  Weaner pigs are little ones from weaning (about 21 days old) to about 10 weeks old.  My factoid for the day. On to the home-stretch............ First sighting of the ocean at about 12 km.  Looking at Google Maps, it appears to be a bay (that extends up to Invercargill) of Foveaux Strait which is th...
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