January 18 - Auckland to Pukekohe

January 18 - We made it!
After a long, mostly sleepless flight we arrived in Auckland.  We certainly weren't fresh as Daisies - more like stomped on Daisies.  And we lost a day crossing the International Date Line (I still think it's somewhere in Laura'a panniers).

The first thing we noticed about Auckland is that it's overcast and drizzling.  We've already been accused twice of dragging the weather with us.  So not many photos today - the obligaory photo outside the airport and one of me checking out new modes of transportation in Drury (bet its been a while since you saw one of those, eh?).
We cycled 42 damp kilometers today.  It's very warm so a bit of damp isn't a problem.  We're now at the Counties Inn in Pukekohe.

Cycling notes about the route - it appears that the Great South Road has had a number of sections of bike lanes added to it, so the traffic was not too bad, although trucks don't seem to make much of an attempt to move over for cyclists.