Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Hailed as the “ultimate road trip text for New Zealand, we like this travelogue for the way it covers lots of interesting sights along the famous state highway 1- linking the North and South islands
The 1 Thing: A Small Epic Journey Down New Zealand’s Mother Road
What you need to know before your trail
Author Bob Moore travelled along the famous State Highway 1 which links both North and South islands – from the northern peak at Cape Reinga to the southern Bluff Harbour – all the major cities of New Zealand to many of the smaller, lesser-known towns.
Hop in beside Moore as he takes you to these places and peeks in the nooks and crannies of the things he sees. As excitable and curious as only a traveller can be, he has a unique knack of getting to the heart of things and finding things that no one else would think of.
Travel Guide
Look at a road map of New Zealand, even from a distance, and you can’t fail to see the big yellow line which runs through both islands linking them along with many of their villages and towns as if it were a very long line of bunting. And well it might be for each of the designated flags on this bunting is a village visited by Bob Moore who is determined to see and experience the best that NZ has to offer.
If you’re going to travel in NZ, then this is THE road to do it on. Maybe not in a Toyota Starlet like the author but how he set himself the task of doing one thing – the ultimate thing – at every one of these trail pitstops.
Looking for a kauri tree in Kauri sounded like something we at the booktrail would do. Oh and visiting the Dutch windmill at Foxton’s. The list of things he did or planned to do is as bizarre as it is varied.
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