 | | See how clean we are during pre-trip planning
Irvine, CA
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 | | Ug, putting in contacts first thing in the morning after a red-eye. Ug.
Random gas station
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 | | Afternoon hike
Arai ti Uru
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 | | This is a small tree down...
Whiranaki
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 | | Cold Shelter. Wet boots.
Whiranaki
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 | | Oh yeah, this is the business. Soaking cleaning after a few days tramping
Polynesian Spa
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 | | Are the eyes watery because of the vegemite or the lack of sleep?
Rotorua, NZ
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 | | I like to take pics of cop cars on my travels...
Rotorua, NZ
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 | | Studying a cappucino and frilly thing. Too bad it didn't taste as good as it looked.
Napier, NZ
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 | | Art Deco in Napier. The entire city was leveled by nature and we recreated in the 30's, thus the look
Napier, NZ
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 | | F*k everyone else, i need to take a good picture and will do what it takes to get it. Including pointing my ass at you : )
Ranitoto Island, NZ
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 | | Post trip picture exchange. Not bad i must admit, but Tom can grow whiskers like a white person.
Irvine, CA
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 | | One of my most amazing dives ever. One of the most ball shrinking too. Kick ass dive!
Northern Arch, Poor Knights Is, NZ
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 | | Topside view of northern arch
Northern Arch, Poor Knights, NZ
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 | | Our 2nd time 'white water' rafting. Supposedly a 7m drop. Class 5 they said. Uh-huh.
NZ
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 | | Isn't he hot? That's me.
Somewhere cold in NZ
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 | | Shitty van + crappy home made gear = good times
Waitomo, NZ
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 | | My decent into the unknown. Damm i'm hot! And cold at the same time.
Waitomo, NZ
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 | | I can't feel my balls!
Waitomo, NZ
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 | | Real men rent sedans
Auckland, NZ
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 | | Funny sign, but unbeknownst to us it would haunt us in Patagonia.
Near Tutukaka, NZ
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 | | The country isn't like the southern california at all. Everything is tinytown.
Anytown, NZ
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 | | Driving away from Whiranaki, a stereotypical scene of New Zealand.
NZ
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 | | Yes, I really do go underwater.
Poor Knights, New Zealand
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 | | Given the number of unsuccessful tries by your's truely i'm surpised that we got this downtown shot of auckland.
Auckland, NZ
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 | | The DOC! Great folks, down to earth they are. They're known in the states as park rangers.
Rangitaiki, NZ
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 | | This tree had been cut, a lot of good it did us though. Most of the trees we came across weren't. We were the first people there in a month.
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | Follow the trail is a little hard to do in a river. These orange triangles helped. Sometimes.
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | Central Whirinaki hut. Cold but it doesn't rain on the inside.
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | Yeah, we're americans. And we hike like pussies too. Here we are trying to keep our feet dry. We learn fast, shortly we gave up and just marched in the water.
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | Um... you follow the trail markers. I'm going the other way. It's always an adventure with us : )
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | One of the few moments where Tom is behind me. He's usually kicking my fat ass.
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | And this is a good section of the track...
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | Do you see the little bump in the cliff face on the far right? That's the trail. Dont' fall. If you don't want to get hurt don't go. Don't sue, it's your fault if you fall down and go boom.
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | The only bit of sunlight we got all trip. And who choose this rainforest?
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | That's the Kiwi way! F*k those pussy americans and their technology.
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | One of the best huts ever!
Moerangi Hut, Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | So we spend days in the water and i'm being an american keeping my feet dry. And with the last bit of water i get wet. Dammit. Neat little waterfall though.
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | This bird followed us for 4-5 hours along the trail. I think he wanted to hump Tom.
Whirinaki, NZ
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 | | Welcome to New Zealand!
Random Road Scene, NZ
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 | | Yeah Buddy! This dude knew how to handle a sheep! Impressive...
Agrodome, Rotorua, NZ
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 | | How Cute!
Outside Rotorua, NZ
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 | | Me at the Buried Village waterfall
Te Wairoa, NZ
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 | | Maori night show. Kinda like an Island Night in the south pacific
Rotorua, NZ
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 | | Tom suiting up for a dive
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 | | Deluxe accomadations!
Waitomo, NZ
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 | | Tom at some raging waterfall... cool place
New Zealand
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 | | Rules Schumlz. Maybe i didn't see the sign eh?
Valley of the Moon, NZ
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 | | A little post grimey dinner
Rotorua?
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 | | The boat capt trained the ducks to fly along side and get bread!!
Lake Taupo, NZ
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 | | So we saw these cool rock carvings in the middle of the lake in all the brochures. Should've known, Mauri aren't known for their prehistoric use of power tools. Done in the 70's. Still neat though.
Lake Taupo, NZ
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 | | New Zealand isn't a country of wide open fields, it's a rain forest place. All those sheep covered fields were made by cutting trees down : (
Random road scene, NZ
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 | | Downtown Napier Scene
Napier, NZ
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 | | We drove hours to get to this spot. And hours to get back on track. And all that was there was this f*king sign!
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, New Zealand
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 | | One of the great tracks so we had to at least check it out. For about 30sec 'cause it was raining so hard it hurt!!!
Tongariro Natl Park, NZ
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 | | The location of the greatest cappucino ever!!! Every other starbucks worldwide just f*ks up the drink...
Auckland, NZ
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 | | Here we are getting artsy with the night shots...
Auckland, NZ
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 | | Tasty shot of downtown Auckland.
Auckland, NZ
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 | | Being a yuppie I'm not used to being treated as a vagabond, but here at the Strawberry Alarm Clock i was asked if i was going to pay for my food. We did look very grubby...
Auckland, NZ
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 | | Yeah, i'm hot.
Rangitoto Is, NZ
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 | | This is what I thought our backpack would be like. Boy was i wrong.
Rangitoto Is, NZ
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 | | Big Game! NZ All Blacks vs Aussie Roo's. It was a sad night in Auckland that night.
Some pub in Auckland, NZ
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 | | I always took the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park granted until i traveled...
Auckland Zoo
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 | | All our our shit. Scuba gear, backpacking equipment, and general city clothes. Not too bad considering...
Auckland, NZ
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 | | VIDEO: underwater cave at Poor Knights
Poor Knights, NZ
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 | | VIDEO: Underwater scene at Poor Knights.
Poor Knights Is, NZ
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 | | VIDEO: Blackwater caving, tubing
Waitomo, NZ
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