Yesterday Mary hopped on her return flight to Seattle, and with that our 42 day adventure came to a close. But, as Semisonic aptly notes in their 1998 classic banger Closing Time, "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." And so begins my solo adventure!
Read MoreI write this from the patio of an adorable AirBnb in Kaiteriteri on the South Island, with birds chirping in the surrounding trees and the faint crash of waves bringing in the evening tide in the distance. Mary and I have been keeping a mental list of good decisions we’ve made on this trip, and booking an AirBnb a week into our bus tour has jumped quickly to the #1 spot.
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