At somewhere around 10PST, my trip started. I took off from San Fran to Auckland on a 13 hour flight. There isn't much to say about it, it was flight, it was long, I was happy when it was over. Once my plane landed, I immediately got my rental car, so I could start my vacation. I rented it from some company called 'Bargain Rental Cars', and... I got exactly what I paid for. A dirt cheap car (Toyota Vita), from possibly the start of the century. Seriously, this thing had nothing automatic except the transmission, tiny, an FM radio that went as high 97MHz, and not much else. The tires on this thing looked like the donuts you have on regular American cars. Regardless, it drove, and I hauled ass on my way to the
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