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Apr 16 2003 Arrival in New Zealand |
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I managed to wake up on time and miracles of miracles the taxi was waiting to take me to the airport. I was there plenty early had no problems catching my flight. It was just a two and a half hour flight to Auckland so I arrived in the |
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Apr 17 2003 Taking a Chance |
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I got up, checked out of Queen Street Backpackers and moved over to the ACB. There I got a clean six person dorm room for NZ$23. I dropped off my bags and went down to the travel agency to figure out how I was going to travel around New |
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Apr 18 2003 Wasting Time in Aukland |
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I met Ruth at 11 the next morning and we met her friend Marco and his girlfriend downstairs. We all went to Starbucks for a coffee and chatted until Marco had to go to work. Afterwards Ruth and I got some food at the food court before I walked |
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Apr 19 2003 Computers, Computers, Computers |
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I got up, found an NZ$11.40 all you can eat Chinese buffet and spent all day writing and eating. Later that night returned to the Internet Cafe to upload the travelogues and ended playing games over the internet until three in the morning.
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Apr 21 2003 Still Waiting for the Camper |
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Well it is Sunday so I broke my routine a bit by going straight to the internet cafe and spending all day there. On the bright side I managed to name all my Australian pictures but to do a strange technical problem was not able to upload any of the |
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Apr 22 2003 Oh My God! Damn, Damn, Damn! |
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Finally the day to pick up the van arrived and I can start touring New Zealand. Of course what do I do for my last morning in Auckland? That?s right back to the internet cafe to do some final work on the trekshare site. I was supposed to |
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Apr 23 2003 Cruising the Bay of Islands |
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I woke up rather early since the curtains in the van were entirely inadequate to keep the sunlight out. Ruth who was normally an early riser had already been awake for an hour by the time Ilka and I climbed sleepily from the van. It was a beautiful sunny |
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Apr 25 2003 On to Rotarua |
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Ruth usually woke up quite early so we had scheduled the party at eight in the morning. Fortunately the bright sunlight woke me up in plenty of time to get inside to surprise Ruth. Ilka and four or five more of Ruth's friends from the hostel were there and |
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Apr 27 2003 Getting My Ass Kicked |
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I woke up early to meet the pickup van from Kaitiaki Adventures. They picked me up on time but not five minutes down the road the driver got a call and gave us the bad news that the dam controlled river would not be open until noon. As this |
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Apr 28 2003 Goodbye to Ruth and the Camper |
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Ruth woke up early as usual and started driving. As we drove I realized I didn't particularly want to stay in New Zealand. New Zealand is expensive and not just because of room and board but because of the many activities available. NZ$195 to bungee jump, NZ$100 for |
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