Joel MacManus attempts to travel from the bottom to the top of the country without a car or plane. Today: the last hurrah.

KiwiRail maintains the train tracks up to Whangārei, but they’re only used for freight to service the port Marsden Point. The closest you can get to here on a regular passenger train is an Auckland ...

Mad Chapman has vetoed my plan to bike the last leg from Kaitaia to Cape Reinga. It’s a bit hypocritical coming from someone who once rode an Onzo bike from Mt Eden to Huntly for a story, but she’s ...