The Te Araroa Project

Welcome Ric 🇦🇺 we caught up with at .

On trail Ric can't go without "my little bumbag, my pack doesn't have hip pockets, it has the belt but doesn't have hip pockets and then these pants only have a pocket at the back and when you have your pack on and you want to get your phone it's so awkward and now this solves the phone problem."

When Ric finishes Te Araroa he is looking forward to "our shower, we have a big double shower so we just sit in the shower and hang out all the time."

The best part of Te Araroa so far for Ric has been "the trail angels, actually meeting local people. interacting with real people and seeing real homes and eating their food just seeing the real side of New Zealand."

Ahead on Te Araroa Ric is looking forward to "im definitely excited to do the kayaking down the river, that's going to be a lot of fun and then i'm excited to get into the south island with the big mountains and be a bit more in the wild."

Ric is doing Te Araroa because "i think there is a lot of reasons, i've always wanted to do a long distance hike, i'd seen a lot of it on youtube, and then my dad has done the Camino and the Bibbulmun. I wanted to do something long distance. It didn't have to be a walk, I was keen to do a bike ride or something large and adventurous."

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Welcome Riorden 🇳🇿, we caught up with at

On trail Riorden can't go without "My Hat, keeps the hair out of my eyes, i'm always wearing it."

When Riorden finishes Te Araroa he is looking forward to "going overseas, i'll work and then get out of here."

The best part of Te Araroa so far for Riorden has been "I quite enjoyed Bream Head, that was a nice section of the trail."

Ahead on Te Araroa Riorden is looking forward to "Tongariro coming up, that'll be my first proper mountain, this was a mountain, not a very cool mountain, it'll be nice to do a really famous walk."

Riorden is doing Te Araroa because "the simple answer is that it was fun, I finished up university and had an epiphany that I could do anything I wanted, go anywhere, choose whatever job, I thought I'd just walk instead."

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