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Okay okay okay, here it is. I´ll always eventually catch up to the present! (it´ll be at the end of the trip of course!)
The kiwi search continues...
Coffeecat2005-12-24 18:09:35
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Okay okay okay, here it is. I´ll always eventually catch up to the present! (it´ll be at the end of the trip of course!)
The start of each new week here makes it very difficult to think of living anywhere else. This may be partly because I'm aiming to move back home to Vancouver, and everything I see here has such similarities to life on the West Coast of Canada. Everything. Glaciers, stunning beaches, ancient forests, and a combination of 2 cultures. The native presence can be felt everywhere, most notably in the tourist shops, but the legends themselves are still everywhere.
After driving along the east coast, I decided not to take the ´presidential highway´ (from Clinton to Gore) and opted to hit the most soutern point in New Zealand. Well, almost. Bluff is the most southern point of the main island but it read up to be of little interest so I opted for Invercargill. There wasn´t a lot to look at in the town, and I had arrived quite late anyways. I felt like a bit of entertainment so I strolled into the movie house. ¨Whatever´s next playing please¨, I asked, as if there were numerous flicks on at the
Looks enticing for a day of kayaking eh?
moment. I loaded up with the popcorn and sunk into my seat. As soon as I saw Anthony Hopkins walk onto the big screen I figured it was bound to be a good show. How pleased was I when it turned out to be a true story, full of inspiration to just go out and make your dreams happen, and it was all based in Invercargill. Burt Monroe had spent years building the fastest motorcycle, and now the world knows it. The pensioners, the school teachers and the milkman all jumped up with thunderous applause for the movie that put their town on the map.
After a quick nose through the museum I hit the road again, and for the first time, heading north. I drove through a town advertising itself as the sausage capital. I
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