March 14, 2005
Rugby, Navigation and Magellen
We stayed for two nights in a cute little place called the Welcome House outside of Nelson (north coast of the south island). It was nothing more than a couple in their 60's who had opened their house for backpackers....Read this update
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March 08, 2005
It's a small world after all!
Shortly after the skydive we learned that our friend Anne Karpfinger (my friend from Marquette) was going to be in the same area as us! We tried to call her cell phone, but it wasn't on. We then decided that...Read this update
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March 02, 2005
Free! Free Falling!
So from Fiordland we headed north for the Wild West coast of New Zealand. We pulled off the main motorway and spent a few days in the quiet little town of Okarito (population 30). We stayed at a little "hostal"...Read this update
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February 25, 2005
Attack of the Sandflies!
From Queenstown we headed to the Southwest corner of the Island to Fiordland National Park. We had hoped to do a multi-day backpack here (Tramping as the call it here) but we were stymied by the lack of a suitable...Read this update
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February 24, 2005
A Puzzling World Indeed
Feb 22-24 So after last entry when we stated that we were "getting of the tourist trail a bit" what did we do next? Why we headed straight into the belly of the beast: Queenstown - the center of touristicky...Read this update
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February 20, 2005
Surfing with dolphins!
21 Feb 05 Day 6 of our roadtrip and we've already put over 1000 km on our little car. After attending the Shins concert at the U. of Canterbury in Christchurch we got up early and headed south. We'd gotten...Read this update
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February 17, 2005
The Cook Strait
After spending two days in Wellington, the capital city, we took a ferry accurse the Cook Strait through the Marlborough Sound, to the south island. We spent 2 nights in Picton at the Juggler's Rest hostel (where, yes you...Read this update
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Tangariro Crossing
Feb 8-9 From Rotorua we headed to lake Taupo - the largest lake in NZ and also sitting in the middle of an ancient volcanoe. After a night here of "Urban Camping" -our new favorite thing we took the bus...Read this update
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From Beaches to Caves
5 Feburary 05- It turns out that we happened to be in Raglan at the same time as their annual music festival, Sunsplash: An all day, all night outdoor concert that featured numerous New Zealand artists playing a variety of...Read this update
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February 07, 2005
Miles of Surf
We arrived in Raglan, on the west coast of the North Island, and fell in love with the place right away. Maybe it was because this sleepy little surf town reminded us of Ocean Beach in San Diego or maybe...Read this update
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English and other languages
And so the honeymoon rolls on folks! When we started this trip one of the countries on our short, short list was of course Middle Earth, err, New Zealand. This small remote country has a little bit of everything and...Read this update
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