It’s here! On Thursday we leave for our long-planned trip to New Zealand. It has been on our minds for a couple years, and we’ve been focused on the detail planning now for months.
We’ll arrive in Auckland on the North Island, spend a couple days there, and then pick up our campervan. We’ll take a spend a couple day to work our way south to Wellington, then take the ferry across Cook Strait to Picton. 
Then it’ll be about 8 days working our way around the South Island; from Picton we’ll head down to Christchurch on the east coast, and from there we’ll either work our way in a clockwise loop (continuing down the east coast) or counterclockwise (crossing inland). We haven’t decided yet.
There are sure to be lots of penguins, seals, mountains, glaciers, beaches, waves, Maori … and sheep. We’ll be updating here nightly, assuming that we have internet access.
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