Next Friday, January 25: After work, fly from here to Apia. Then that night, fly from Apia to Auckland.
26: Lost to the date line.
27: Get in at 125am. Pick up a rental car and go sleep at an airport hotel. Then in the more reasonable morning, drive to Waitomo. Cave tour that day. Afterwards, drive to Tongariro Nat'l Park and camp there.
28: Tongariro Crossing hike. Stay at a hostel in the National Park Village.
29: Either drive to Martinsborough and visit some wineries and then camp or drive along the coast and stay at a hostel a couple hours north of Wellington.
30: Drive to Wellington- hang out in the city. Stay at YHA hostel downtown.
31: Fly to Christchurch at noon. Then drive across the island to the Wanaka area and camp.
February 1: Hike to Rob Roy Glacier in the morning, then drive to Te Anau Downs area and camp.
2: Drop car off at Milford Sound in the morning, then bus back to Te Anau Downs to catch the boat to the start of the Milford Track hike. Hike to the first hut.
3: Hiking the Milford Track
4: Hiking the Milford Track
5: Hike out to Milford Sound- drive back to Queenstown
6: Queenstown
7: From here on out the itinerary is somewhat up in the air but I'll guess the rest: drive to Fox Glacier and camp there.
8: Backpack to Welcome Flat - stay in a hut there
9: Hike out, check out Franz Josef Glacier- drive to Hokitika and stay in a hostel there.
10: Drive to Nelson Lakes Nat'l Park- camp
11: Hike around Nelson Lakes park- camp
12: Drive up to Abel Tasman Park- hike to a hut and stay there
13: Hike to another hut in Abel Tasman
14: ?
15: ?
16: Drive over Lewis Pass- camp or stay in a hostel
17: Drive 1.5 hrs to Christchurch- check out the city.
18: Fly to Auckland in the morning, hang out in the city
19: Fly back to Apia in the morning-- then back to American Samoa. We'll get the day back from the date line and be back home on the 18th.
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That's quite an itinerary.
When you're in Wanaka, there's a great Mexican restaurant you'll have to try. It's almost as good as Evalanis. I'm pretty sure it's the only Mexican restaurant in town.
Which cave tour are you going to do?
We're just doing the Black Labrynth one. I think the next one up would be really fun, but I don't think we have the time without seriously running ourselves ragged. I think this one will still be pretty fun.
You should know by now that like sunscreen, itineraries do not work for you. Actual itinerary:
27th) Arrive at Auckland. Promptly lose wallet, including cash card and credit card.
28th) After learning that it will take 10 business days to get replacement credit/debit cards, you hitchhike a mule ride up to the milford trail.
4th) After narrowly escaping a wallaroo attack, you make it to the trail, where you put up a paper-plate sign to inform the credit card delivery man of your location.
8th) OK, you admit now that you are lost. The "just go straight" approach doesn't work here. Everything is upside down. The guy hiking with you keeps saying "we're going to die". And he refuses to wear a yellow shirt. You think he is being ridiculous.
15th) You find your way back. Your replacement credit and debit cards are taped to the paper plate. Finally, that strategy worked!
17th) Get drunk, and start talking America's Cup trash by chanting "Kemp hates sailing". Narrowly escapes getting a bushell full of kiwis stuck up your ass by a local.
18th) Fly home.
HA
Mass,
I didn't think anyone gave you more crap than me, but KC is running a 4.1 40 in that department.
KC,
Masser should start a company that makes paper plates specifically designed as trail / campground / "we went in this direction" signs. He would make a fortune selling them to himself.
your friends are so so mean.
Nice itinerary KC. Yours is way more accurate than the one Masser fabricated.
You are overly generous though when you say Masser will 'lose' his wallet. In fact he'll just throw it away.
Kemp does hate sailing...I saw it on chat somewhere.
Ha! Nice work this post.
Akkk. Abort your itinerary. Snow camping is scheduled for 2/15-17. getitgetit.
Ugh, this Super Bowl really sucks (and no, I am not refering to myself as "this Super Bowl"). I can't choose who to root for, I want them both to lose. Ordinarily, I have no problem with the Patriots. But this year, they have really bugged me. But the Giants as Super Bowl champs??? Yuck!!!!! That is unacceptable.
I guess I have to root for the Patriots. At least then we won't have to hear the '72 Dolphins talk anymore.
Shane -
I think you need to publish your stories on Masser.
KC
I am strongly considering publishing-- but sometimes I fear only Kappa Sig members will laugh at Masser's misguided attempts at _________________(camping, hiking, driving, rafting, swimming, diving, waterskiing, tubing, kneeboarding, starting a fire, not remembering to bring a sleeping bag on a snow camping trip and then having to wear 4 pairs of pants and sweaters to stay warm or Tecmo Bowl I).
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