Ride bone of intention
This one had already landed on me twice during this trip, physician Colin Rickard joked about his motorbike in central Nelson on Friday.
Joking aside, the group of eight medical professionals have spent a week-and-a-half touring the South Island, raising money to help with bone marrow transplants - a treatment for leukemia - and estimated they had so hit the %26pound;50,000 ($130,000) mark.
Specifically, the trip is to raise money for the Anthony Nolan Trust, which compiles a list of people willing to donate bone marrow.
The eight members of the trip cover all expenses themselves, meaning all the money raised - mostly from corporate sponsors - goes directly to the cause.
But Dr Rickard, who works at Londons Royal Free Hospital, freely admitted the trip was a mix of business and pleasure.
Its been stunningly beautiful and lots of us want to get back again.
The group left Christchurch earlier this month, circling the South Island clockwise, and spent Thursday night in Motueka, then Friday night en route to Christchurch.
They expected to complete their tour in Christchurch about midday on Saturday, with a party there before returning home.
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