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Monthly Archives: December 2008
What Are We Eating?
This post is more for our memory of the food we ate on this leg of our journey, but we thought some of you might be interested in seeing our uninteresting diet (Aaron Taylor, you said you liked the food … Continue reading
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Campervans
New Zealand has their own terminology for what we, at home, would call RVs or trailers–they call the larger ones caravans and the smaller ones campervans. The closest thing we have is the VW Eurovan or the classic VW sleeper vans. We actually … Continue reading
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New Zealand in about a minute
If you wonder what been up to for the last two months here is our journey summed up in about a minute. YouTube Direct
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Mueller…Mueller…
We hope you aren’t getting too tired of hearing about all our backpacking. We have one more hike we have to share about it. This one takes the cake of all of the hikes we have done and places we … Continue reading
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The Routeburn Track
We originally booked the Routeburn Track for December 2-4 and had been pushing it off ever since waitingfor a break in the weather. That break had finally come and we found ourselves starting the track on December 10. The Routeburn … Continue reading
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The Kepler Track
We didn’t realize it at the time, but later learned that Saturday was the best day of the season, so far, on the Kepler Track. The Kepler is one of three Great Walks in the Fiordlands and considered by some … Continue reading
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Cruising the Milford
Over 500,000 visitors come to the Milford Sound each year. Our original intent was to avoid the crowds and do the 4 day Milford tramp, but it is fully booked until March so we decided to rest our feet and … Continue reading
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The World’s Fastest Indian
Doug McIntyre reminded us that we must go to Invercargill if for nothing else to see the original Indian motorcyle ridden by Burt Munro who holds the under-1000cc world record at 183.586 mph . If you haven’t seen “The World’s Fastest Indian” … Continue reading
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The Scenic Route
Heading south from Dunedin is an area less traveled. Many people choose to skip over this part of New Zealand as it is not the most direct route to the Fiordlands where more of the tourists flock. We prefer to … Continue reading
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Weather You Like It Or Not
It was time to to leave Wanaka and head on to the Fiordlands. We went to the information center to check on the weather and learned that it was going to be miserable for the next several days. Seeing how … Continue reading
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