Today is my last full day in NZ.  I am alone now, John and a few of the guys stayed in the south to go hiking and visit John’s family, and the other 7 guys including myself came back up here.  There was a concert in town last night, Ben Harper and Pearl Jam.  I wasn’t planning to, but went at the last minute.  Today I am just poking around, cleaning up and returning the van and sorting things out.  I tried to write posts of the trip on my phone as things went along, but there wasn’t a lot of time for typing things out…  I will have to do a review of each day and sort it all out.  Lots has happened.  I can’t believe I am on my way to Canada so soon…  Can’t wait.

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After waiting for one of the guys who was supposed to come in at 1 pm, we discovered that he missed his plane. So we drove up to the springs without him, and he will catch up later. Hamner is amazing, and reminds me a lot of a small Banff. We went to the hot pools, which were really sulphur smelly. It stained our silver pretty strongly.

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We went for a drive up the coast to a pretty sweet village, and then we played paintball in the afternoon. I will need to expand on these entries soon.

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I am here now and things seem to be pretty good. It took longer to get out of the airport than planned but everything went smoothly. We will be picking guys up over the next day or so. We have our van and are ready to cruise. Should be good. Time zone change is a little weird, so is the long evening light. Summer is on its way…

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