As we travel through New Zealand, we will do our best to send dispatches from the road. Updates may be sporadic, but we hope to keep everyone informed and excited about the progress of the trip.

We will also upload photographs to the Walkabout SmugMug account. Here, you can view pictures as a slideshow and buy those you like.

Here's the link to the New Zealand SmugMug page.

Also, you can check out the detailed itinerary for each day on the Walkabout New Zealand website.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

We have arrived!

As we hit the last speed bump on our way out of Baylor, Troy set a timer. 34.5 hours later, we arrived in Kaikoura, New Zealand. Four flights and three hours of driving, interspersed with a lot of airport wandering, made for a long day that, according to our watches, never happened. Now, however, we haves walked on the beach, washing the travel grime from our feet, and we reposed on the pebbly shore, marveling at the contrast of a turquoise ocean before us and snow-capped peaks behind it. On the drive from Christchurch to the coast, we compared the character of the terrain to Montana, California, and rural Tennessee, but once we reached Kaikoura, we realized that we have arrived in place that is truly like no other.

Tomorrow we will check the surf and go for a hike, then we are off to Nelson to prepare for our sea kayaking adventure in Abel Tasman.





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