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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 Aukland so I arrived in the |
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Apr 17 2003 Meeting Ruth |
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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 of my bags and went down to the travel agency to figure out how I was going to travel |
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Apr 18 2003 What's up with those cows? |
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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 Eating and gaming. |
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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 Another day doing nothing |
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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 due to a strange technical problem was not able to upload any of the |
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Apr 23 2003 Catching the sunset at Cape Regina |
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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 A surprise birthday party and on to Rotorua |
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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 26 2003 The great breakup |
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Ruth was up early as usual and I woke up to find that the little lakefront park we had parked at had changed into a weekend flea market. Ruth wanted to go on one of the many hikes in the area while I wanted to try the luge and use |
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Apr 27 2003 Getting my ass kicked on the Kaitiaki |
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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 Fleeing New Zealand |
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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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