Road Trip #3 - New Years 2007 (Part 2)
Imagine this, the Superfly is catching up... ha 2 posts on one day!
In the last part we reached Taupo.
So it's 1 January 2007, I excused myself from the new years party at the backpackers and retired to lala land. Around 6 AM I got up and prepared for the last leg of the journey to Auckland.
It was a cool morning in Taupo with mist hugging the hills. It hills actually seemed to be steaming! It's A L I V E ... OK enough of that - hehe :)
Before the trip truly got going I stopped at a cool tourist spot just outside of Taupo. "Craters of the moon" forms part of the "Volcanic explorer highway" and sure is a weird place... Steaming 24/7 , the volcanic activity keeps the forest at bay.
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The road from Taupo to Auckland snakes through small towns, forests and a million paddocks. I reached Auckland airport with forty minutes to spare and spent that time laughing my head off at Jeremy Clarkson's book "The world according to Clarkson". Pieter arrived a little late, after having to explain why he would dare bring his DANGEROUS golf shoes to New Zealand to a "nice" customs official. He even survived to tell the tale!
Just a note, double click on the photo's to see the full size version, it's worth it!
A POLITICIAN!
want a goal in life, be such a leader that
your followers will write this about you
once you're gone!
I booked us into Oaklands Lodge backpackers, you might remember that John, Annelize and I spent 2 weeks here during our first month in New Zealand. After this we set out to explore the City. I know Pieter had just spent the last 30 hours traveling but now he had some proper scenery! Here's a few snaps of Pieter's first sunset in New Zealand. It was a lovely day. This actually marked the beginning of the road trip. We were standing on the brink of a one week adventure down the east coast, around the Coromandel peninsula, via Rotorua and National Park to our destination, fair Wellington!
More about that in the next Part of this road trip, till then...
Supafly, out!
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