Sunday, February 7, 2010

sleeping bag

I woke up this morning outside the Dunedin yatch club....I rolled out of my sleeping bag which was sitting on the edge of the harbour....I flung my hair back like they do in the movies and looked over to the parking lot and saw the girl of my dreams...we quickly got married and are now talking about settling down somewhere in Saigon.....ok so most of its lies...i did wake up outside the yatch club though looking out over dundedin expect i woke up too a parking lot of old people in speedos and running shoes warming up for a triathalon....its been two weeks now living out of the old North Face sleeping bag not paying a dime for places to stay....

Since leaving christchurch weve been driving down the east coast of the south island...the land is insane....the rivers and the lakes are a teal color that would blow your mind...tropical sorta stuff but in the middle of the mtns....Im now in Dunedin, home of the steepest road in the world....we drove up....then this old german couple came walking up and called us lazy....i really didnt care seeing on how i got real crap sleep the night before and couldnt be bothered....we checked into a hotel today because it was pouring down rain and nobody felt like doing anything...so scott and rhona booked a room and the rest of us snuck in later and split the cost....hooray for sleeping indoors! and cheese! i booked a ticket home...ill be flying out of auckland on the 29th of july...

things are good...ive got a few more weeks on the road and then its off to work my ass off picking apples and selling bras, cant wait

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Hookers and other stuff

Im officially really really really flippin dark...im talking nigerian or kenyan dark....the ozone layer above new zealand is so thin that the sun is twice as hot... So im in Christchurch atm...got here two days ago and met up with Hana, Gemma, and Mariana....Christchurch is pretty cool...fairly small city, tons of character....I got lost last night at like one in the morning, somehow i ended up in the redlight district...will just say there were alot of occupied street corners and the majority of the clientel were ladies with large hands and adams apples....so i quickly made my way out....the weather has been insanely good...Ive been sleeping outside in my sleeping bag for the past couple weeks, only had one day with a little rain...On the way to christchurch we stopped by this place called Flock Hill....it is basically a huge boulder field for climbing....i took loads of pictures ill get up on facebook soon...the rocks were crazy though, random wierd formations everywhere with so much climbing potential..so i broke out the climbing shoes and chalk bag and climbed around for a bit....i booked a flight home finally...i officially leave new zealand on the 29th of july!...i have a feeeling the next six months are going to fly by...ill be traveling around the south island for another month and then its off to find work...the plan is to pick apples for a bit and then sell bras....yes, sell bras...this guy goes around to dif festivals in austrailia and new zealand and sells bras and he pays really really good...so hopefully that will work out...then its off to austrailia to meet up with Christina for a couple weeks...last but not least im gonna scrape the money together to go to southeast asia and hopefully meet up with Jess Maggart for a few weeks....really the plans are completely in the air...taking things as they come seems to be the best option...