I knew I was standing on the most beautiful spot on earth. I don't remember exactly where it was, but it was somewhere in New Zealand's South Island. Jeremy and I had decided to drive the length of the two islands in twelve days, Queenstown to Auckland. The rental car was old and the radio didn't work and we'd often wake up in the morning to a dead battery. As the trip's navigator, it was twelve days of, "Stay to the left!," "watch the road!," "Oh wow that's beautiful," "stay to the left!," "wait stop here!," "I'm hungry," "where are we?," "stay to the left!" I stood in that spot, wherever it was on the South Island and reflected on my other travels. I knew without a doubt what I was witnessing at that moment was
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