or switching the shoes for a paddle, and the track for a river … The Whanganui River…. during the few months of preparation for this trail, while looking at the map of the route the TA will take, my eyes would follow with excitement the red line through beaches, farmland, mountains and forests all along the North Island… and there would be one part where they would invariably linger a bit more… that part where the line turned blue… The Whanganui River… My head would be full o