Big Trip

No superstition here. Marathon journey though, all the way down the Coromandel (which, we discovered, is almost unremittingly beautiful and has pretty much no straight roads) and up the other side of the Firth of Thames, through Auckland to the Bay of Islands. Not much to note (see previous comments on scenery) except the horrifying increase in traffic through Auckland. After two months without it, I could quite happily never see that much traffic again. I should be so lucky. To be honest, first impressions are that it wasn't worth the drive, really. The Coromandel's nicer. That could be just the tiredness talking, though.