It's starting to feel like spring here--cherry blossoms are popping on trees throughout Dunedin, we went to the beach yesterday and splashed through warm(ish) water, Whiskey plunged in over her head on a drop off. Jon, Cody, and I are gearing up for the next moves.
I'm finishing up a job at the School of Physiotherapy here in Dunedin for the next two weeks, then Jon, Cody, and I will drive north. Jon will fly to Wellington for his last residential (all wilderness medicine scenarios on a mountainside---SO JEALOUS!). Cody and I will camp and climb for a few days then Cody will drop me off in Christchurch.
I'll pick up our free rental car (SCORE!) then drive north again. I'll take the ferry from Picton to Wellington and pick Jon up. The next day, we're hiking the Tongariro Crossing and hopefully summitting Mt. Ngauruhoe (also known as the top of Mt. Doom in the Lord of the Rings trilogy).
From the Tongariro Crossing, we'll continue North until we drop the car off in Auckland. After that, we'll hopefully backpack around, visiting some old friends of mine in the North Island for a few days. On November 5, Jon and I will fly to Brisbane for about 33 hours of climbing and roaming, then we fly to Singapore at 2am on November 7. We'll be in Singapore for a month and a half, living in a SWEET hostel while I get trained to teach yoga and pilates and Jon does carpentry work at the hostel.
On December 14, we fly to England for Christmas with my crazy family and then fly back to the states on January 6. We will drive from Boston to Michigan to pick up Bettie and Isaac and my car, then drive home to Fayetteville! We're hoping to get back to Fayetteville around the 14 or 15 of January.
It's been a crazy year, fantastic and difficult, but I'd do it all again in a heartbeat given the chance. I sure am excited to get back to Arkansas though...
Big love from New Zealand (for a little while more)!
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