Lugging the 70kg weight of the tandem bike up a steep incline, an argument was brewing. ‘I’m not sure about this. I think we should just turn around,’ I confessed to my partner Toby, now 34.
‘It doesn’t look like we’ve got that much longer to go from the map,’ Toby said, pushing on. ‘I don’t want to give up.’
Heaving the heavy bike up a 30% incline, over big rocks and rough terrain, we’d already been doing so for hours and had got nowhere.
It’s Valentine’s Day, I thought. We’re not about to have the biggest argument up here in the sweltering heat of New Zealand – it’s been the worst start…
I wanted to give up and Toby wanted to keep going – we just couldn’t meet in the middle.
Getting teary, it was a test of our relationship.
However, thankfully, after 20 minutes, Toby had finally come to his
