Hey guys. Things are going really well here in New Zealand, despite the weather, which seems intent on dumping as much rain as possible on us in as short an amount of time as possible. Happily though, whenever we seem to plan a day outside the weather clears up long enough do do what we were hoping to do, hopefully this keeps happening. After a variety of experiences in our 3 days in Auckland, Elke and I picked up our van, which is great and includes a fridge and a DVD player, and set off on our exploration of the North [View Full Entry]

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Although my first journal entry may have given the idea that I was not enjoying myself or was rather underwhelmed by Fiji, in reality, it was just Nadi that I didn't really enjoy. After our one day in the city of walking around and being pestered to "Just come and take a look," Elke and I headed down to the local marina to meet up with the sailing ship that was going to be taking us out to the Yasawas for the next four days. The Yasawas are a beautiful group of Islands that are just off the western coast of [View Full Entry]

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Before I left Canada I tried talking to as many people as I could who had done some traveling in the countires I was hoping to visit and, without a doubt, the one country that kept coming up as a must visit destination was New Zealand. This was no real surprise as I have been hearing great things about New Zealand for ages and so I was excited to leave Fiji and head out to Auckland for the better part of 5 weeks. The flight from Nadi to Auckland was only about 3 hours and I would have to say that [View Full Entry]

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Here goes my attempt at a travel journal. I will do my best to update it as much as I can with all of the most interesting anecdotes and experiences that I go through as I make my way from Fiji to Europe. Hope you guys enjoy it. Well, given how long I have been thinking about traveling it actually feels somewhat sureal to be sitting in another country far from home now that I have finished up at university and am trying to decide what to do with myself. It was such an abstract concept for so long, but now [View Full Entry]

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