Te Araroa, Day 35 and Day 36

Those 2 days we buy resupply as well as food and drinks for those zero days, I try to get some writing done for the blog, do some laundry without washing machine as most of the time and then a lot of time is about planning:

scanning maps, looking at the "trail" ahead, the conditions, planning the kilometers per day, the hours it might take and looking for accommodation. 

When I try to buy two tent stakes at a very nice outdoor shop where I bought a lot of freeze dried food before, the owner says "Happy Birthday" (it is not my birthday) and gives them to me free of charge. How nice.