Phlegm
Hello Journal.
After a few days of travelling with a cold, it has gotten progressively worse and I have been coerced into staying inside today instead of exploring. It's not so bad, the sun is not out.
I left off in Kaikoura, and from there Gus and I hitched to Christchurch with an All Black's fan who's friend got knocked out at the game and was in the hospital there. Christchurch is like.. whatever. I'm not so fond of modern NZ cities. We kept getting lost and missing the bus and stuff. I saw my first Kiwi bird in a nocturnal enclosure at a little zoo called Willowbank. They are so cute and funny!! The canterbury museum with the antarctic section and the botanical gardens were beautiful but somehow the city was too sterile, not as cozy as the rural towns we usually stay in.
From there, we travelled to Mt. Cook via Timaru where an old couple gave us a double room for the price of a dorm room. that was nice. We had to bring all our food up to Mt. Cook because everything there is so expensive, including our beds. But it was worth it. The drive from timaru took 4 different pick ups, but we have been so lucky to have gotten every ride in under an hour. We wanted to stay longer there than 3 nights but it got rainy and we couldn't go hiking anymore so we came back towards christchurch to the gorgeous Banks Penninsula about an hour and a half away. Thats where I am now.
these pictures are kind of cheesy but i needed good representation.
After a few days of travelling with a cold, it has gotten progressively worse and I have been coerced into staying inside today instead of exploring. It's not so bad, the sun is not out.
I left off in Kaikoura, and from there Gus and I hitched to Christchurch with an All Black's fan who's friend got knocked out at the game and was in the hospital there. Christchurch is like.. whatever. I'm not so fond of modern NZ cities. We kept getting lost and missing the bus and stuff. I saw my first Kiwi bird in a nocturnal enclosure at a little zoo called Willowbank. They are so cute and funny!! The canterbury museum with the antarctic section and the botanical gardens were beautiful but somehow the city was too sterile, not as cozy as the rural towns we usually stay in.
From there, we travelled to Mt. Cook via Timaru where an old couple gave us a double room for the price of a dorm room. that was nice. We had to bring all our food up to Mt. Cook because everything there is so expensive, including our beds. But it was worth it. The drive from timaru took 4 different pick ups, but we have been so lucky to have gotten every ride in under an hour. We wanted to stay longer there than 3 nights but it got rainy and we couldn't go hiking anymore so we came back towards christchurch to the gorgeous Banks Penninsula about an hour and a half away. Thats where I am now.
these pictures are kind of cheesy but i needed good representation.