After San Francisco, I flew home to MD and spent a few weeks hanging out with the rents. I had a lovely time at home, and got to see a lot of friends that I hadn’t seen in a very long time. It was a really nice way to decompress and relax after so much [...]

SO it’s been a long time since I wrote anything and a lot has happened since then. I’m now back in Montreal and slowly getting my life more settled and regular. But I’ll get tot that in due time. For the sake of completeness and because I have some pictures to upload, I’m going to [...]

My last stop was a few days in Auckland, basically just waiting for my flight home. I hadn’t originally planned on spending any time there, but the only day that the flight was cheap was a few days earlier than I wanted. I had the impression Auckland was kind of lame from Matt and Dan, [...]

I had a flight from Christchurch up to Auckland so it was my last stop on the trip around the south island. Dan and Matt are still in New Zealand now, taking a couple weeks to sell their bikes and prepare to go home. Christchurch was fairly uneventful but I snapped a few nice pics [...]

After the Catlins, we planned on stopping on the way to do some more camping but didn’t really find anything cool so we drove straight through to Dunedin, the south island’s college town. We met up with Steven’s other 2 kids, Abe and Ellie. Abe’s wife Deb is in med school and so he’s currently [...]

Originally, we had intended to spend a few days going to Milford Sounds and Fiordland, but a huge storm was coming in and the road out there is notoriously difficult to drive on. Its supposed to be insanely windy, and the weather can change within minutes since its a rainforest. Lots of wet turny roads [...]

Next up was Invercargill, one of the southernmost cities in the world. We happened to stumble upon a really sweet backpacker’s (hostel) run by a really awesome guy named Sparky. He was a total character, a total stoner, and a super nice guy. He had quit his job a few months back to run the [...]