Ok, we are here in Auckland. Everything went very smoothly...our luggage, bikes and all arrived beautifully. Yahoo! Harbor ride on the ferry this afternoon. By the way, it is Sunday am here 9:24 am. We lost a day on the way out here...Saturday dropped away from us. Hauraki Gulf is the body of water we will be cruising. We'll post a coupla pics later :)

Hello all...we have been packing all day today, breaking down the bikes to go in their airline boxes (on wheels :), going through our lists, leaving anything not absolutely essential, hanging with Julian and Lianne--they have helped us immensely--later gators

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Here is a photo of all the stuff we will be carrying on our bicycles...and of our wonderful panniers

Here we are on our ride today. Will be posting pics of our equipment, all carried on our bikes.

here's another coupla photos just for fun

Hey: We're setting this up for our bike trip to New Zealand coming up the first 2 weeks of November. Just put new tires and new chains on the bikes...have everything on the list...tune in here to find out all the stuff we need that never made it on the list :) We want to post our photos here, so I will try to post a couple now