After having written my previous article about driving up the Harper and Avoca Valleys, I remembered another really awesome trip, close to Christchurch, that takes us completely into the wilderness.
I must admit that I felt a little bit bad about telling how I didn't like living in Christchurch, despite having grown up here in the 1970s.
A while ago, my great friend, Elliot Neville, proposed driving up to Manuka Hut.
A quick aside, Elliot has a start-up company ( www.falconoverland.co.nz) and is working on a system called the “PowerHub”, which will allow people to easily install dual battery systems into either 4WDs, campers or boats. This should be released within the next couple of months.
Elliot knows my total lack of ability in all things electrical and when I asked what his project was