The motorway was very nice - though getting on it was tricky due to some construction closing the normal entry. We were surprised when it became a toll road. They had plenty of warnings about it - and there are no toll baskets/toll takers. You pay on-line by entering you license number and supplying your credit card for the $2 toll. We have 5 days so Lee needs to get on the stick and provide our credit card number to the toll authorities (NON PAYMENT IS A VIOLATION according to the signs)!
Since it was rainy and Saturday, not many people were out so we decided to head farther north. When the Highway ended, the road was still very nice - though somewhat curvy at times. They have passing lanes quite often so we didn't wait behind slower drivers and they didn't wait for us.
It is a beautiful country! Lee was navigating and usually doesn't take many pictures.
We went all the way up to Whangarei (pronounced "Feng-er-ay -- I believe). We stopped in at the Info center and she directed us to the Whangarei Museum and Kiwi house to see the Kiwi named "Snoopy" - only to find out that Snoopy had died and replaced by "Snoopy II" and that they were closed.
We returned via a circuitous route of hairpin turns along the beach during a torrential downpour in search of a place to have lunch. It was a good day of driver retraining and gauging distances.
After a shower and some R&R, dinner was at a local restaurant called Monsoon Poon, a southeast Asian restaurant with very good food. Lee had Singapore Noodles with prawns and chicken (every bit as good as Pad Thai) and Di had shaking beef with a killer lime sauce.
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