We flew into Christchurch and picked up our Spaceships campervan. She was to be our wheels, meals and bed for 10 days of touring and she made it through it all without too much complaining. We did a counterclockwise tour of the South Island, obviously missing large portions of it …
Now that we are off the road, I am able to upload some more from the North Island portion before sharing the South Island journey. Random roadside stops From Paihia, we took a passenger ferry over to Russell, the town once known as “the hell hole of the Pacific” …
We lost almost a full day on our 5 1/2 hour flight from Tahiti as we crossed the international date line. I don’t think I even noticed it since the overnight flight already made me a zombie. We really only had one full day to explore Auckland and it just …
Travel days pretty much suck no matter how you try to spin it but they are necessary to get you to those places you’ve dreamed of going. Travel time to Tahiti was a 1 hr flight to Vancouver, 3 hr flight to Los Angeles and 8.5 hr flight to Papeete. …
