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Christchurch

I miss baseball, but I did get to watch the Reds season opener on tv.  At 6am though. Let’s see, what have I been doing the past days and weeks?  Since the climb I have been hanging out in bigger cities some of the time and doing some walks in the parks.  I...

The Climb

Yesterday will go down as a very memorable day for me.  I climbed a mountain.  A real mountain.  It is Mount Taranaki which is the Maori name for volcano.  It was 2518 meters to the top and the weather can change eraticly, and it did just that as I made the decent...

Aimless North Island Tour

I’ll call this week my tour my aimless tour of the north island of New Zealand.  I never really knew where I should go to or where I would end up.  Every time I consulted my guide book I would end up passing my turn off or find that the place wasn’t really...

Camping at Huka Falls

I am in a tent right now camping beside a river.  I thought I should take a moment before I go to sleep to write on here a little bit.  Yesterday was a very cool day. I stumbled across this small town that reminded me of Bardstown.  They had lots of little antique...

Touring the North Island

I am in Wellington right now.  I am leaving soon, like in an hour.  I don’t know for sure where I am going yet.  North from here though.  Maybe Napier.  I’ll keep ya’ll posted.Sometimes when your setting up the shuttle for these kayak runs you can...