We leave late (10am) due to bad weather and manage some seriously bad waiting times (about an hour per ride). First ride gets us 2kms further out of town. Second ride is with a Kiwi girl and a Canadian guy, this gets us to Kaikoura. Third ride is with an old codger from Blenheim who has just been south of Chch for the first time... ahh!
He drops us in Blenheim where we have zero success in getting another ride! Admittedly it was 4.30pm, not a great time to hitch. Blenheim also has this annoying split highway so you can only catch half the traffic. So by 6pm, with a freezing hitchers thumb and the light dying we decided to go for plan B. Sent out a text looking for friends of friends and head back to town to get food. As it turned out, one of my texts struck gold! A semi-retired friend of a friends family (you know, the whole 2 degrees thing...) was fine with us staying at his place close to town. Excellent! He came and picked us up and we ended up with a cosy warm sleep and a ride out to a good hitching spot the next day!
Day 2 saw avg waiting times (across two rides) drop from 1 hour to about 10 mins! Thats more like it. And got us to Nelson by 9.30am! Very nice.
Our 2nd hitching spot in Havelock
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