I've been living in New Zealand for 3 months now, and it's been amazing! For the first month, my friend Chris and I traveled all around the North and South Islands - discovering for ourselves what makes this place so special. I've found that keeping up with a blog on the road - camping without Internet or power - can make it difficult to keep pace with all that we've been doing. So I've decided to create a series of future posts outlining some of the amazing places we've already seen, starting them with the title, "Thus Far..." I want these to be short, media driven, educational posts that allows you to see, hear, and be a part of my journey. The goal of course is to keep this place clean and up-to-date going forward, with a few past adventures sprinkled in along the way.

The view behind our apartment In Queenstown.

Dani & Chris getting ready for Christmas at our apartment.

We started all of this in Christchurch, on the east coast of the South Island. There we met some really great friends. We moved south around Queenstown, up the west coast through Haust, upward toward the most northern part of the South Island to French Pass, and over to Nelson. After two weeks alone we could have stopped and been satisfied with all the beautiful sights we'd seen; but, we regrouped again in Christchurch.

We decided to head north to Aukland, to find our own form of transportation. We wanted more of New Zealand, and the freedom of having our own vehicle, made sense. What follows throughout my blog and my website will hopefully catch you up with where I've been and what's going on along my journey.

Thanks for following along and welcome to my blog!