Leaving New Zealand

IPad is maybe lost forever, hand is a bit worse for wear, but overall an amazing trip. Here's our goodbye selfie.

View from top of gondola, Queenstown

Milford sound

We sea kayaked here.

Last night in Queenstown

It's been an incredible three weeks. More photos will be uploaded once we get to Boston, but wanted to post a fond farewell to an unbelievably beautiful country. Thank you.

Queenstown

Queenstown

We're back in civilization!

I'll have my iPad back tomorrow and will hopefully be able to finally upload photos, but till then here is a picture of the view from our hotel in Queenstown.

Sorry no photos

Back country component very intense with a lot of time pressure. Tour group and guides are great and we are enjoying ourselves thoroughly.

Transition to back country

We just dropped off our trusty campervan and are at airport to meet up with our back country tour group. Traveling in our mini home for ten days has been awesome. Hopefully the next eight days are even cooler 😁

Akaroa, and a pig named Ninja

We drove through Christchurch to Akaroa and stopped at the hilltop restaurant. Brett went wandering to get pictures and met Ninja the pig. Best pig ever. Tried to cuddle and everything.

The drive from Blenheim to Woodend

Is nearly impossible to describe. You go through extremely varying microclimates and terrains in a relatively short distance. We tried to capture a sample.

Because Sinead is concerned

We aren't doing it right 

Marlborough wine country

Beautiful!

Hello South Island!

We have officially arrived on the South Island. We sleep in picton tonight and head for Christchurch tomorrow.

Brett by camper

Per request 😃

Very indignant duck

Would like to know where breakfast is

New Zealand camper breakfast

Totally awesome 

Lunch by the sea

Driving through gorges in an rv

Is an unnerving experience. Vehicle height puts you at risk of knocking against narrow walls. Super narrow lanes reduce margin of error to a bad crosswind between you and a bad crash at best, a steep pitch to your death at worse. So I needed to decompress on the other side and pulled over at the nearest turnout. Pumped up the music and tried to breathe. Soon we noticed the neighbors were curious so I turned up the music and took some photos.

Promise more will come

But we spent the last day and a half on the driving the Coromandel peninsula. Insanely beautiful. Will try to load photos from our camera tonight. In the meantime here is a picture of some cool local art at the lazy lizard cafe in Whangamata.

We are on the other side of the world!

Trying out blogger app

At airport.

Packed...it's been a day

The Countdown Begins!

We are going to Hobbit land!

We are traveling in October to New Zealand. This is a trip that I have wanted to do for over a decade and cannot believe its finally happening.  We will have  a camera and an iPad so will hopefully be able to upload photos during the trip and keep everyone updated on our travels!