coolian2
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Just drove 460kms in a day. I actually feel surprisingly good.
Let's be honest, Auckland rush hour lasts almost 24 hours now.
Also, fun fact: I've never been to the coast of the Bay of Plenty. Not the Mount, not Tauranga, not Whakatane, nowhere. I've been to the inland - to Rotorua, a few times - but never across the Kaimais.
Uninteresting note: the one acceptable plural that remains for Māori words is for mountain ranges. "Rimutaka Range" seems too formal and stilted to me; "the Rimutakas" sounds about right. But if you say "the Māoris" you're probably somebody's racist grandparent.
I have been to Dunedin and Christchurch (this one in particular a lot) as well as a bit of traipsing around Canterbury.
I haven't been further north than Omaha Beach. That is practically a nonsense. How can I have gone to the highlands of Scotland, and have never bothered going outside of a satellite commuter town to Auckland northbound in New Zealand?
Im trying to make my trip to Boston work so that I can attend U2's show at Gillette stadium. My parents will be Boston then but I'm not sure i can take that long go a break from my grad school (i want break that's at least 5 day long as I also want to see some of my friends in US). welp
Ha, for obvious reasons I've been well north of there a lot. But I haven't yet made it to Cape Reinga. Furthest north I've been is the Karikari Peninsula.
The big gap for me in terms of travels around the North Island is the coast north from Napier. I also haven't been to New Plymouth despite having gone close a couple of times. In the South I've travelled pretty comprehensively but still need to tick off the Catlins and Golden Bay.
Hell, the full-time employment I've got at the Uni of Wollongong from June will be a little confusing for me, because so far in my career I've only held casual contracts where, again, nobody cared when I came and went. Now I'll have to actually notify somebody when I travel or take leave!
Yeah I'm going to use the winterless North to rectify that. I know how to travel cheap.
I've missed Napier, New Plymouth. I was going to sort out a few gaps in the South over Christmas but I don't think I'd have been welcome on my exes roadtrip. I think I'll hold that over to summer - discretion is the better part of valour and I don't like being cold.
I mean I had can't be fucked days at ANZ but I tended to spend those at the office
I tend to think the best time to do the South is late spring, like November or so. I need to figure out a plan to do the Catlins at some point. It's been at the top of my list of New Zealand locations to visit for years, but I haven't been able to squeeze it into various trips.
And I could travel through Haast Pass repeatedly and never get tired of it. What a stunning place.
To be honest I do that a lot just because, well, air con.
I'm stuck with whenever the end of semester two turns up. And I was pretty okay with 29 degrees in Tauranga today (I'm not sunburnt wtf). The only part that sucked was the sand was about a million degrees.
I'm stuck on the NZ travel bug because there is way too much pretty stuff to see.