Heading west -a wild ride

9 Mar
I left Palmerston North at around 8.30. Margaret fed me breakfast and suggested a route out of town that would get me going in the right direction. Because most of the city is flat its hard to get a fix if there is a lot of cloud around.Its a problem I have always had in Palmerston North on the occasions I have driven there.  I used. the GPS to guide me to main road. heading west. I knew the wind would be strong and hoped and. prayed it would. be from the east still.
My prayers were answered - I have never had a ride like it. The wind blew me across the Rangitkei Plains - I barely had to pedal. I was maintaining 30km/hr+ for long periods of time. Had the wind been a westerly I would have really. struggled. I got to Whanganui early afternoon and decided on the camping ground by the sea rather than the more expensive one in the centre of town. The strong wind didn't die down until after dark. I had a long. discussion with a Canadian woman and her adult son about things to see and do in New Zealand. Which us partly why this blog entry us a day late.  I talked so long I bad to go to bed in the dark.