News from New Zealand

Sorry about the lack of updates, but we haven’t been near too many hotspots. Right now, I’m writing to you from Dunedin where New Zealand’s oldest University is. School is back in sessions, so last night (Saturday) was a huge party downtown. Julie and I went to a rugby game where the Dunedin Hylanders beat the Canterbury Crusaders 6-0, which was their first win over the Crusaders in 6 years and their first shutout in 13. The Crusaders are considered New Zealand’s finest team, but as one bloke put it, “They’re not anymore.”

I won’t spend too much time here detailing every detail of our journey so far since Julie is the one keeping notes and she’s off on a walk right now (I’ve got a bit of a sore throat, so I’m staying in at the moment). Our campervan is nice, though it is starting to smell a bit. We’ll clean it up so I can grab a few shots of it to show you all. Here’s a very quick rundown of where we’ve been:

Sydney due to our long layover. Then into Christchurch where we stayed with Julie’s cousin Sarah and her husband Brooks as well as their new addition Ida. Then we headed to Timaru for our second night. The next day we drove to Omaru were we saw some baby penguins and Maroki (name might not be right) were we saw some adult Yellow Eyed Penguins. Into Dunedin for rugby, drinks and sleep. Next up is going to be Te Anu were we will collect ourselves for the journey to Milford Sound. After that, probably Queenstown. I think we are not doing the rail trail bike trek since I’m not feeling the best right now. Maybe on our next trip.

Photos are taking too long to upload, so maybe we'll post some later.

We're here

Stop worrying, we made. Computer is nearly out of juice, so more later. We had an adventurous couple of days, so many stories to tell. Photos coming.

Bleary-eyed and we haven't gone anywhere

Well, apparently there was a mechanical failure on our plane, so we sat on the tarmac for 4 hours while they tried to fix it, but eventually, the flight was canceled. We were put up in a hotel for the night and told to be back at the airport at 9am for a 11am flight. This was at about 3:30am. I made an effort to stay awake all night so I would sleep on the plane. I ended up getting about 10 minutes sleep while Julie snagged about an hour and a half.

Right now, Julie is mailing her Leatherman back to herself because she accidentally left it in her bag she was carrying on. Oops. Not the smoothest start to our honeymoon, but an adventure none-the-less.

Until next time.

We're off to New Zealand

My wife and I are taking our much-needed honeymoon to New Zealand on Monday and you're invited.

OK, so you can't actually come with us, but we will be blogging about our adventure whenever we are near an internet connection. Julie will be doing the lion's share of the writing and I'll be posting the photos.

So join us on our journey and don't forget to post some comments to let us know that you are reading.

Tour of California

Originally uploaded by Anthony L. Solis.

Stage 1 winner Francisco Mancebo races during stage 2 of the 2009 Amgen Tour of California near Bonny Doon Road outside of Santa Cruz, CA on Monday, Feb. 16, 2009.