notes from the road

I hear the west coast is beautiful. I wouldn’t know because I slept most of the 8 hours I’ve spent on buses the past 2 days. I did get a picture of the bus though. Haha.

Sleeping at the airport killed me.

Sunday we had a 4 hour flight from Rarotonga to Auckland, where we had a 12 hour layover before a 6AM flight to Nelson. Arrived in Nelson at 8AM and hopped on a bus at 11AM for a 6 hour ride to Greymouth, a city about halfway down the west coast of the south island. Got to Greymouth, did some laundry, got some groceries, started catching up on my blog, went to bed, and got on another bus at 6AM for a 2 hour ride to Franz Josef, where I went on a 2 hour glacier hike by myself. And tomorrow I have to catch a bus at 9AM to Queenstown where I’ll meet up with my German friend Carolina who I met in Picton. Then we’ll travel together for a few weeks.
That, my friend, is what we call a mouthful and a heck of a lot of traveling. Ugh.

So the glacier was very cool – no pun intended ; ) Wow – cheeeeeeeeeezy humor. The hike was easy and it wasn’t raining too horribly. It was a trek along the stone bed of the river that the glacier runoff flows down. You get to the start of the glacier, take a few pictures of a big chunk of ice, and then turn around and walk back the way you came.

me at the glacier

me and the glacier. haha. i know, i’m a dork.

Well, in life there are choices and there are consequences. I chose to travel instead of work and now I’m eating peanut butter and jelly for breakfast, lunch, and dinner : /