Today is day 100 of my trip. Not including October 20, which disappeared, I have been away from Kansas City for 100 days. I was in New Zealand for 92 of them. I’ll just give you a quick summary of what I have been doing for the past week, since I arrived last Friday and I just got into Kansas City this morning. After the long bus day to Auckland, Read the rest…
Up until this point in my trip, I had been able to hop off Stray to avoid long stretches sitting in a bus. Getting on the bus every day and going to a new location is not a relaxing holiday. However, after the Routeburn there was only one way for me to get back to Auckland to catch my flight home: a nonstop boogie north. It was not too bad, Read the rest…
Ages ago, back in October, I booked three Great Walks: Tongariro, Rakiura, and the Routeburn. They fill up quickly so booking early is highly advised. In fact, the Milford Track was already booked for December and January. While I was at the Aspen Lodge over Christmas, I booked three nights around my Routeburn excursion. It was a great plan for my last hurrah in Queenstown before Straying back to Auckland Read the rest…
Stewart Island was a nice island oasis before getting back on the big orange Stray bus. After the ferry we boarded the new bus with our driver Rob. It would turn out that Rob, in many regards, is an asshole. If Stray passengers can’t bond over the activities or stories of traveling, they can always bond over complaining about their bus driver. To sum up Rob I’ll use his own Read the rest…
The Foveaux Strait is said to be one of the worst ferry crossings on the planet. The Stewart Island Voyager, the name of our glorious vessel, had illness bags available in every seat. Before coming to New Zealand I had never gotten seasick, but all trends must come to an end… …this trend, thankfully, remains in tact for now because my voyages across the strait were fantastically smooth. We arrived Read the rest…
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