Wednesday we organized a tour with some other CouchSurfers to Whakatane (Bay of Plenty) and booked a trip to Whakaari (White Island), which is New Zealands most active volcano. The island is located about 50km off shore of Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty. The boat ride takes about 1.5 to 2 hours to get […]
The carfair at Greenlane which is hold every sunday morning is a great opportunity to get your new car. There are hundreds of used cars in every shape and pricerange. I got my car last sunday! :-) The registration of the new owner can be done at every post office – so that’s no big […]
Muriwai Beach is a place at the west coast, just 35 km northwest of Auckland, where you have a long beach of black sand and nices waves to go (or practice) surfing. It also is the home of a colony of a few thousand gannets.
My first day in Auckland was quite fun. I met CouchSurfer Brent from Canada (he was on the same flight from LA as I was) and we shared the pain of going through all those immigration and customs screening. Taking the shuttle from the airport into downtown Auckland, we first went to Auckland Central Backpackers […]
Saturday was my travel day. I flew from Montana via Denver to Los Angeles and then boarded Air New Zealands NZ5 to Auckland. My backbag didn’t though! I already was informed in LA, that my bag still was in Denver. (Strange thing, that United Airlines or Denver Airport or whoever wasn’t able to transfer the […]
I am only uploading some of all those pictures I take into this blog. There are more, though. :-)
Since I’ve never been to Montana nor Yellowstone National Park, I decided I would visit Ginny in Missoula, Montana and rent a car and drive down to Yellowstone. Ginny and Ron moved back to Montana after I had been at there place in Chico, CA two years ago. Even though we just spent two days […]
