So this is New Zealand, wow, wow, wow

Well we did make it to the land of the Maori & Kiwi. This is going to be a short blog, but I did want all to know that we have made it and are migrating north. It's a slower migration that we thought it would be, there is just so much beauty every where, wow wow wow.

All the folks here have been so nice; the lady at the car rental that was just too nice to be mad at even though they were an hour late picking us up and the fact that the car rental place was easily in walking distance or the lady that Holly bought a couple of used books from that gave Holly a nice hat when Holly mentioned she was needed to purchase a hat, things like this. Oh, yea I'm on a time limit.

We spent the first day & night in Orewa. A really nice spot. I will write more later. OK, I can write a little more about Orewa now. There was not a great deal to explore here, but it is a very nice landing place, a great place to catch your breath after flying all night from the US. I had no real difficulty driving on the other side of the vehicle going the other way on the roads and Holly was the best navigator, so that all has been going well, e.g. no wrecks yet. I am glad that we landed in Orewa, but we were both looking forward to getting on the road the next day and we did after a nice relaxing day & night. We shopped at the market on Sunday and got enough foods for a couple of days. The US security took our MSR gas tanks we need for our camping stoves, they were empty but had been used (my mistake telling them they had been used, damn that honesty). So, it will be uncooked foods until we get that figured out.

Orewa

We camped at a nice place (the people running the place come to Austin every year to ride motorcycles, too funny, but why leave NZ the cycling is fabulous) in the Bay of Islands.

On the way we went to visit a cave with glow worms, too fun. We were down in the cave with a young family with 3 kids, they had a brilliant adventure, in the mud and water, and the glow worms looked like stars in the night sky.


Glow Worm Cave

Glow Worm Cav