Day 5 (May 26) was nice. Rented my spaceship (his name is OB1 - I didn't make that up, it's on the door) and headed north to "Northland." It rained the whole drive, but I was able to stop and see the largest Kauri tree in NZ. The picture doesn't do it justice - it's 150 feet tall. I was there all alone in the rain and wind and I had only about 15 mins left before sunset. Freaky. My Spaceship has a great sound system (with iPod input - too bad I forgot mine), but there are ZERO radio stations up north of Auckland, so I drove in silence for hours. Finally found NZ's Wal-mart called the Warehouse and bought the new Chili Peppers (2-disc) and Jack Johnson CDs. Anyway, drove 450km that day and
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