Arrived in New Zealand late Friday night, checked into hostel, Base Backpackers. Following morning, Bekka and I found Stefan (who had followed Bekka over from Oz) and sat down to discuss our route for the next week. Knowing I had Sarah arriving in 10 days, we planned to see parts of NZ that we wouldn 't include in our trip. After much discussion, we came up with a vauge route, but decided we'd hire a car and just see how it goes. Unfortunartly, our other girls had arrived a week before us and had already set off on a tight schedule as two of them were flying out of Auckland on 10th March. Therefore they were doing the South Island in 18 days and we were not able to catch up with them. Bekka and I
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