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Day 8 - Queenstown

Yesterday I took a couple of busses from Christchurch to Queenstown. Beautiful scenery the whole way. Mt. Cook was covered in clouds… oh well.
There was a bit of a debacle last night that woke me up and involved some British hooligans from my room and some dude breaking glass outside. My hostel […]

day 6 - christchurch

What a beautiful day.
The sun is shining low in the bright blue sky, it is a crisp 50-55 degrees, and the leaves are changing color. I only have 9 minutes left so this needs to be short.
Last night on the plane I saw the southern lights (Aurora Australis)!!! Amazing. So eerie and […]

Day 5 - Jet lag returns, off to NZ

So much for jet lag being taken care of. I feel really weird and tired today. Maybe it was too much Toohey’s last night. Maybe it is the huge plate of chicken tikka masala I had for lunch in Glebe. In either case, I was close to getting super carsick on […]

Day 4 - No more jet lag

What a city.
I sincerely apologize if the last post was barely comprehensible. I was a little lost in a haze of exhaustion.
0.7733 USD = 1.00 AUD. Just in case anyone was curious. That means that my $2.40 filtered tall Starbucks Timor coffee is really $1.85. And my $27/night hostel (which is […]

Sydney!

The flight wasn’t so bad. Really.
The problem is the sleep. Or the lack of sleep, rather.
I left Pittsburgh on May 2 at 2:30pm. Landed in Chicago at 3:30 (central). Took off at 6pm. Landed in San Francisco at 8:30pm (pacific). Took off at 10:30pm. Landed in Sydney […]