Arrived two days ago at 11:00 a.m., and by 4:00, I’d scored a sweet camper van and a spare bed at my friend Ziggy’s place for a few nights. Yesterday I equipped the van, got a cell phone, hooked it up to my email account, went grocery shopping and picked up Alicia at the airport. Today we’re relaxing with my friend Dave, a seaweed researcher at the University of Canturbury, and tomorrow the adventure begins. We’re probably headed up the coast, past Kaikoura, and onto Golden Bay for a few weeks of climbing at Paynes Ford.
Christchurch’s Port Hills are absolutely stunning. What a beautiful place to live. Ziggy — a doctor of psychiatric medicine with dreadlocks down to his waist — lives with his wife (an ophthalmologist) in a small pad overlooking Lyttleton Harbor. Nice. He’s got some time off in March, so we’re hoping to connect with him and go whitewater kayaking for a few weeks.
So anyway, here are a few pictures as we start off our trip! One’s of our new home on wheels for the next few months, and the other two shots are overlooking Lyttleton Harbor from Ziggy’s front porch.
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