My Love for Icebreaker
After reading my New Zealand Expense Report post, the first thing my mom asked was “What is this Icebreaker and why did you spend so much on it??”. It doesn’t […]
Category Archives: New Zealand
14 Days in New Zealand: Expense Report
January 2 – January 16, 2013 Adam and I tried our best to record all of our expenses, big or small, to see how much we’ve actually spent during our […]
Journal Entry: RTW Day 13 & 14 – Queenstown to Christchurch
5:30am alarm clock episodes are no fun, especially when it is your two Singaporean roommates (recent highschool grads) getting up to rustle around more plastic bags then a hoarder would […]
Journal Entry: RTW Days 11 & 12 – Wanaka to Queenstown
Yes, I’m still journalling… Albeit a bit behind schedule… Nonetheless, lets pick up where we left off, the day after skydiving. After saying our goodbyes to the resident hostel cat […]
Journal Entry: RTW Day 10 – Wanaka
Two days of rain and missed skydiving appointments later, Julie and I finally woke up to a beautiful sunny day in Wanaka. We had called Skydive Wanaka the previous day […]
Journal Entry: RTW Days 8 & 9 – Greymouth to Franz Josef & Wanaka – Rained Out
Nothing too exciting happened on Jan 8 & 9, 2013 due to some pretty heavy rainstorms. Yet New Zealand still managed to make these two days incredible. We left Greymouth […]
Journal Entry: RTW Day 7 – Akaroa to Greymouth
Yay no hangover! The weather had improved since the previous night, but was still a bit threatening, and we were concerned it might deteriorate again during our cross-continental east->west drive. […]
Journal Entry: RTW Day 6 – Kaikoura to Akaroa
After a night sleeping without a pillow (our roommate slept just fine), Julie and I spent the morning wandering around Kaikoura getting brekky and coffee, after which we took to […]
Journal Entry: RTW Day 5 – Wellington to Kaikoura
While originally scheduled to depart Wellington to Picton on the 2:30pm Interislander ferry, we were able to get our ticket changed to the 8:25am departure so that we could take more […]
Journal Entry: RTW Day 4 – Wellington
The rim of mountains surrounding Wellington is quite beautiful, and the nearby Victoria Peak in particular has an easily accessible lookout. I say easily, but that is because we have […]
