We finally arrived in Auckland this morning, after a 14 hour flight with 7 hours of turbulence and 2 last minute $6,000 return tickets to LAX in February (They wouldn't let us on the plane without a visa or a return ticket). Yay! But, nothing an Ambien and a few Fijian beers can't fix. Tonight we're staying at this bizarre campground with numerous brightly and crudely painted vans and a security man ballroom dancing outside his office to Waylon Jennings.
Our Kiwi friend Dayne suggested we buy a car and then we can be footloose and fancy free to go climb, backpack, kayak, etc. wherever and whenever we want. Apparently people come here, buy a car, drive it around for a few months and then sell it. There are car auctions everyday. And then up to Tongariro National Park, where the Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed for a week of backpacking. More updates and hopefully pictures later.....
2 comments:
Dude, you shoulda bought your SE Aisa tickets~!~ have fun... i'm jealous - Z
cool! sorry about the tickets- can you just change them now? i am seriously jealous too. dont you guys want to meet up in croatia in aaugust?
love, kathryn
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