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 17, 2012




Today we went canyoneering in Queenstown. Considering that Superwoman Lindsay Mies admitted that she was nervous, you can only imagine how I was feeling on the drive over. We left from Queenstown, the most awesome city in the world, and drove about forty minutes to Routeburn trail at the base of the mountains. Canyoneering was an experience that I will never forget. We slid down waterfalls (backwards), jumped off ledges into pools, zip-lined, and got a taste of that cold mountain water. Although I was shivering like no other, I was so happy to be there. Also, I have officially decided that I am going to live in Queenstown. Sorry Mom and Dad—you would understand if you were here too. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

-Grace Strang


We have arrived in Te Anau. Tomorrow we will go sea kayaking in the Milford Sound, and we begin our backpack the day after. SmugMug is currently experiencing some site difficulties, but we will put some more pictures up as soon as we can.





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