{"id":677,"date":"2009-03-15T08:50:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T06:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/2009\/03\/15\/nz-road-trip-day-one\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:09:54","slug":"nz-road-trip-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"NZ Road Trip Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We departed Hamilton at today, hungover as hell cos Lynda insisted on opening the champagne last night when we already had a tummy full of beer and wine!<\/p>\n<p>We fastracked it through Auckland, over the harbour bridge, turned off at Takapuna and followed the East Coast Bays Road. We stopped at a cafe in Mairangi Bay for a gorgeous breakfast, and soooo cheap. $10 got us 2 flat whites and a bacon and egg sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped at Orewa and took some photos of kite surfers. One guy wanted us to get some photos of him airborne for a French magazine.<\/p>\n<p>On the road again we did a diversion to the Puhoi pub for a beer.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_4172.jpg' title='img_4172.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4172.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_4172.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our next stop was Sandspit where I caught my first fish when I was only 5 years old. (Back when I was 5 years old my Dad put my line in the water for me and said if I feel a tug to pull it in. So I felt a tug, pulled my line in, and sure enough there was a fish on the end. )<\/p>\n<p>This is the spot I caught my first fish!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_41821.jpg' title='img_4182.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4182.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_4182.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike, sister Lynda and Chrissy in a silly photo where I caught my first fish!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/img_41871.jpg' title='img_4187.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2009\/03\/img_4187.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_4187.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then made our way towards Mangawhai heads and got lost on a dirty gravel road, but eventually came out the end.<\/p>\n<p>We are staying at a friend of Lyndas place and it is very nice and comfy.<\/p>\n<p>We had pasta and salad for dinner, accompanied by many beers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We departed Hamilton at today, hungover as hell cos Lynda insisted on opening the champagne last night when we already had a tummy full of beer and wine! We fastracked it through Auckland, over the harbour bridge, turned off at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=677\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-aV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}