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How was New Zealand? Is the most common question I receive when asked about my trip to New Zealand. It really is something, just like any experience, that cannot be relayed, but must be experienced first hand. The following pages are my attempts to explain what I saw and went through during my six weeks in the most amazing place I have been thus far in my life. Some are ones that were published while I was gone and others are snippets from my personal journal often written under my headlamp in my tent. My recommendation – experience it. Spend as much time experiencing everything that makes up New Zealand and every other aspect of life. |
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Why Zealand - The Trip Explained... - 25 October 2004
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Is one of the biggest questions I have received since I decided to bike around New Zealand for an extended time. For the record, let me state it is not... |
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And Counting... - 31 October 2004
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About 1:00 am last night as I was slowly drifting away to sleep I realized that I had passed a milestone. The time remaining until my flight was less than the... |
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3:40 am - 2 November 2004 |
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First of all, I know that most of you are wondering how my flight was -- truly, it wasn't that bad. I didn't get an exit row seat from LA to Auckland so I... |
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Encounter - 5 November 2004 |
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I realize it was just the other day that I wrote everyone from Paeora, but it seems like an eternity from then. I am now in Whaketane having gone |
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First Sunlight - 9 November 2004 |
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From the first city in the world to see the sun (Gisborne), I say hello. Two days ago I was one of six people to see the sunrise before anyone else in the... |
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Monotonous - 12 November 2004 |
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It is crazy to think really that I could be using the word monotonous to describe a trip in such an amazing place, but that’s really what it has become. I guess... |
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Wet and Windy - 15 November 2004 |
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Today I left the north island after a fantastic day in Wellington . I had tried to write you all about it yesterday when it was fresh in my mind, but the... |
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Bottle of Red; Bottle of White - 17 November 2004 |
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OK maybe not an entire bottle of each but a proper sampling... Yesterday I didn't make it far from Picton due to wind and rain -- followed my gut instinct in... |
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14.1 mph - 19 November 2004 |
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Not a whole lot has happened since I last wrote, but since it is only 11:00 and I am already done for the day I thought I'd take the opportunity. Leaving... |
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Broken, then Fixed - 21 November 2004 |
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Amazingly quite a bit has happened since I have written last. The evening after I wrote I was able to go sea kayaking around the Kaikoura Peninsula.
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Rain- 27 November 2004 |
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Since I last wrote the good majority of you have indulged on heaps of turkey, potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, pies... All kinds of good stuff
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Home - 21 November 2004 |
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A couple of nights ago, Monday to be exact, when Windsor and I returned from our quick tour of some of the south South Island two words struck me and... |
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Lessons - 13 December 2004 |
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It only took two hours. Actually I think it took less. The lines, the crowds, the cell phones, the billboards, the hype, the expensive clothes, the loud... |
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