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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

Day 1 – Dunedin to Christchurch (11-3-04)
It was with little adieu and minimal celebration that I departed from my small flat in Dunedin, New Zealand after nearly five months of living there. A cold place in which the walls were no more than cardboard barriers between a chill Antarctic wind and my layers of polar fleece, the flat had been my home away from home, yet I was glad to see it go and recede into the memories. Filed away as my first “overseas living experience,” Dunedin would remain both a good memory and bad memory, although perhaps ultimately my recollection of it would be tempered by the next six weeks that I would spend traveling Australia and New Zealand. [read on]