{"id":2977,"date":"2017-10-30T02:01:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/auto-draft\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:24:07","slug":"journey-first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/cycling-travels\/cycling-oceania\/new-zealandaustralia-2017\/journey-first-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey to down under and our first step…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jenny and I made it to Christchurch, New Zealand as planned with our equipment and tandem in tow even though on some flight connections we questioned ourselves whether we would see the tandem coming out from the oversize luggage area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017.10.24 \u2013 Ottawa (CA) – We were very thankful to our good neighbor for driving us to the airport. Our meticulous equipment and tandem packing paid off as we did not incur any extra luggage charges at our airport check-in. Although we had secured three bicycle boxes to store our tandem, we ended up using a single one. Needless to say, we were concerned a bit as to whether we could reassemble the tandem once at our destination. Clearly, we were not ready to tackle this task at the airport after some 29 hours of traveling of which more than 22 were in the confine of airplanes.<\/p>\n\n\n