Last Sunday morning, after spending the previous night at “Four Flat Whites in Italy” I leapt (yeah right!) out of bed at 6 a.m. I was off hiking but needed to vacuum first as the real estate agent was due out later in the afternoon. Racing out the door at 8 a.m., I picked my two hiking buddies up and off to the Waikato River Trail, which runs alongside the Waikato River.