http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_qD.html Tomorrow I leave for Nadi, Fiji. I fly out of New Zealand, my home in the South Pacific. After a couple of weeks of intense road tripping through the Northland of NZ, including working on an organic farm, and sand boarding in Ahipara, I am now in Auckland, NZ's largest city. I must say, Auckland is not all that it is cracked up to be. If there was a "coolest city in NZ" contest, Wellington would kick Auckland’s butt, hands down. It just seems like any other oversized sprawling; no one is friendly city....kind of like any big US city? The drivers here are mad! I could not wait to hand over my rental car to the agency. In a matter of minutes I was being honked at by NZ drivers, Come ON, I thought
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