Travels!

We had to move out of our apartment on Monday, but did not leave Nelson until Tuesday thanks to the lovely couple from Georgia whom we’d met at the beginning of our travels. The couple, Lane and Mark, was kind enough to invite us over to their house for our last night in Nelson. That night they made us a delicious home cooked meal, and in the morning we woke up to the most beautiful view overlooking the Tahunanui Beach. Lane and Mark gave us some goodies for the road, and then we were off!!! So, where are we going again…? We have all saved a little bit of money and plan to travel the remainder of our stay (which is currently the end of June). As you know we have rented a reliable car because our stubborn Subaru now resides in a car park. Using this new automobile, which ironically turned out to be a Subaru, our travel itinerary involves camping and staying in hostels all over the south island. In Nelson, we were lucky enough to be given a three-person tent from a work friend and when using this miraculous gift, we most likely will freeze our fannies off. Nevertheless, camping is cheap, so BRING ON THE COLD. However, we do not plan on camping too many nights. For our parent readers, I assure you that we will be well dressed in appropriate layers and always have a cautious eye full of awareness with our surroundings. Eventually we will end up in Queenstown (adventure capital of the world) where the McDuff family is meeting us. They have rented an awesome house, and we will be staying with them for a week. Then it is off to Australia for two or three weeks in which we will fly into Melbourne then Cairns (Great Barrier Reef) and then Sydney. That is all we know at the moment. Our goals for the next seven weeks are to be open-minded, flexible, resourceful, and adventurous and to obviously live it up because we are in freakin’ NEW ZEALAND!!!!