The 33-year-old Woodville dairy farmer is leaving no stone unturned in his quest to be elected to the board of DairyNZ.
During an overnight stop in Oamaru - having stopped 80km from Haast at midnight the previous night and slept in the vehicle before hitting the road again at 5.30am - Mr Allomes joked that the trip could possibly be described as a "moment of madness".
While the road trip was first suggested as a "bit of a joke", he thought about it later and decided that it was not a bad idea.
His aim was to introduce himself to voters, raise awareness of the voting process and also gauge the feelings of dairy farmers throughout the country.
As a former president of New Zealand Young Farmers, runner-up in the National Bank Young Farmer Contest and winner of Sharemilker of the Year, with his wife Nicky, Mr Allomes thrives on a challenge.
He said he could not sit still and needed to be doing things.
Mr and Mrs Allomes have come a long way from entering the dairy industry 11 years ago, with $5000 in their bank account, to now sharemilking two properties and being in an equity partnership for a third property.
They milk 1450 cows and employ 10 staff.
After leaving Palmerston North Boys High School, Mr Allomes completed a Bachelor of Applied Science degree, majoring in natural resource management, before going farming "and I haven't looked back".
Young Farmers had been a major part of his life and he was involved at the top-table of the organisation during a key time in which it turned around from declining membership and reinvented itself.
He was national president from 2006 to 2008 and was also twice a grand finalist in the Young Farmer Contest, including finishing runner-up in 2006.
For Mr Allomes, "dying wasn't an option" for Young Farmers and it had gone from attracting $1000 of national sponsorship (excluding the Young Farmer Contest) to $1 million in three or four years, along with strong growth in membership and the establishment of new clubs.
"I'm representing the next generation of farmers but the next generation of farmers are already representing themselves within their regions.
If Young Farmers hadn't been there, they probably wouldn't have been doing these things.
Now they are punching about their weight in their regions."
The couple's dairy business was "going pretty well" and he did not want to grow it any bigger at this stage.
He did, however, want to get involved "in the bigger picture".
He believed DairyNZ - which represents New Zealand dairy farmers and is funded by a levy on milk solids and through government investment - was a natural progression from his involvement in Young Farmers from the industry-good side of things.
He and his wife were a "product of 100 years of industry good".
They went into the dairy industry with only a love of farming, and everything they had been learned had been from the industry.
During the road-trip, Mr Allomes has been making both cold calls and calling on those he knew, from farmers to directors of milk companies.
Asked the issues facing the dairy industry, Mr Allomes said public perception had to be "top of the list", with the environment and animal welfare.
Farmers had to be doing the right thing, not just seen to be, but they needed science and research "to know what the right thing is".
On talking with farmers, they knew that public perception was key but there were varying opinions on whether DairyNZ should be the voice of the industry in terms of improving that perception.
The road trip was the longest he and his wife had been apart in a decade.
He described Nicky, who comes from a Taihape sheep farm, as "the lynchpin" and their business was a team effort.
Asked the highlight among his many achievements, he said it was having his wife and four children to come home to at night.
There are eight candidates for three DairyNZ director positions - Greg Maughan (Marton), Michael Spaans (Te Aroha), Mary Cooper (Palmerston North), Kevin Ferris (Te Awamutu), Gary Stokes (Hamilton), John Luxton (Wellington), Denis Aitken (Outram) and Mr Allomes.
The results will be announced at DairyNZ's annual meeting in Hamilton on November 2.