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it's not the destination; it's the journey

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June 16th 2007
It's about nine hours of driving to get to Christchurch for our flight to Australia, so we decided to break it into two days. We got up for our morning stop at the local bakery for coffee and pastries and were off ...no real agenda for the drive. We drove through a winery region and stopped for a few apples. Our first stop was in Arrowtown a really quaint little town outside Queenstown. We dec ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more