Here's a list of the people that helped me get around New Zealand in one piece. My Hitchhiking rides.....

Starting from Auckland upon my arrival...
1) A Maori guy going to fix an outboard motor for his father.
2) Heavy metal punk rocker kids with a spray painted flourescent car.
3) Rodrigo- a Brazilian carpenter that married a Kiwi girl.
4) A guy that sold digital media storage in Auckland.
5) Marcus- to the yachting regatta we go...
6) 2 Fijians graduating from engineering school, loved my Fiji stories.
7) A redneck hunting guy in a little micro machine of a truck.
8) The infamous Dr. Hair- hair and scalp specialist (young boy lover)
9) Dairy farmer that has 5 farms
10) Rough dairy farming lady that had gotten up at 4 to milk the cows.
11) Every other word "fuck" girl- with her 2 yr. old kid next to her.
12) The infamous Swiss Miss
13) An American couple working in the Phillipines
14) A guy that does stucco for a living.
15) A Slaughterman that when asked how he kills the sheep, I asked is it with a stun gun, or bullett... he says, "No, I slit their throts and break 'em at the same time."
16) A Vegetarian
17) Matt- a carpenter
18) A strawberry farmer
19) Di- the breast cancer survivor
20) Random woman that had lived in Fiji
21) Deborah Still- went 3 1/2 hours out of her way to take me to Queenstown because she liked the music on my iPod.
22) Pete- Ex-truck driver was going to pick his son up for a weekend at home.
23) An older guy that loves Florida and told me about it for an hour and a half
24) Nick- young guy that took me to the farm party just out from Wanaka.
25) Scott- a guy who owns the Gondola in Queenstown
26) British Couple with friends in Boca. Didn't stop telling stories the entire ride.
27) Aviation Mechanic steaming mad because Shania Twain bought 20 million dollars worth of property near his town.
28) South African couple- build zip line courses all over the world.
29) Irish couple- took me to all of the glaciers then we had tea and cookies.
30) 2 Israeli girls- one was fat and the other was about 3 foot 5.
31) A dairy farming kid that taught me about pig hunting then dropped me off next to his farm in the most remote place I've ever been. There was an old guy on a little riding lawn mower that was mowing ACRES of land and would pass me where I was trying to hitch about every 15 minutes and just shake his head.
32) A father/son who were British, but I didn't understand 1 word they said.
33) Matt- Owns a solar heating business.
34) Random Cambodian kid that I thought was going to shit his pants when I told him I might go to Cambodia. He didn't understand anything else I said.
35) Yoga teacher
36) Big country Momma with a full blown moustache. She was also a truck driver and we listened to Irish jig music the entire ride in this little tiny roller skate of a car.
37) An older woman that smelled bad, loved Egyptian history and Elvis music.
38) Kevin- the gun enthusiast. Especially likes assault rifles. Comforting.
39) Ian- starving artist/escaped from 4 prisons. www.waikahagallery.net
40) Brett- a shipping manager for a freight company.
41) Marcus- back to the Bay of Islands one more time
42) Whoever takes me to the airport tomorrow...