Exact details of my trip are not cemented quite yet (It's hard to plan day-to-day activities when you're halfway across the world), but here's a quick over view of what I do know I will be doing!
On August 9th my friend Stephen and I will be departing Christchurch in the wee hours of the morning. We will head up the coast line to Picton where we will take a ferry to Wellington (the capital!). Our original plan was to spend a day or two there. But the friend we were going to stay with is out of the country. Regardless, we will spend a few hours exploring the city before heading to Masterton for the night of the ninth.
In Masterton we will spend the night with a dear friend of mine who actually came to Minnesota to visit a couple of years ago! For some strange reason he decided to show up in February, in a blizzard. Thankfully he enjoyed the snow, while I was a bit more put out.
From Masterton we will head up to Lake Tuapo where Stephen's uncle has a cabin. We will spend a night there and do some hiking around the lake.
By August 11th we will have reached my old flatmate's Ruth's house in Matamata. We will spend 4-5 nights with her. Matamata is also known as Hobbiton because that is where they filmed the hobbit village for the Lord of The Rings movies.
After leaving Ruth (If I leave Ruth?) we will head back down to Masterton for a night, back across the ferry, and back to Christchurch on the 18th.
While I am in Christchurch both before the road trip, and after. We plan on making some day trips out to the Canterbury plains, maybe a trip down to Queenstown, and I will be couch surfing from friend to friend so I'm uncertain of more concrete plans.
I am not certain when, or even if I will be able to keep a blog. But I will be writing every day and if I cannot upload it during the trip, I will upload it when I get back to the United States on august 24th.
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