Te Araroa: prelude to "the afternoon on a farm"
- Author
- alison young
- Published
- Thu 12 Nov 2020
- Episode Link
- None
The Blissful Hiker "sidles" the steep sides of a riverbank in the Mangaokewa Reserve and learns how "un-lonely being lonely can be."
In this episode:
- Blissful leaves Waitomo for Te Kuiti through slippery farmland, getting lost in fields of sheep poo and confusing orange triangle-shaped trail signs.
- The reserve begins as a Hobbit Forest in a sun shower, but soon becomes greasy sidling along the Mangaokewa Stream.
- All alone at the "cool campsite," she muses on when she first started thru-hiking, she was too afraid to even close her eyes.
- It's more sidling on the way back to farmland, where trail angels rescue her for an afternoon on a working farm.
MUSIC: Soliloquy by Bernard Rogers and Night Music by Antal Dorati as played by Alison Young, flute.
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