New Zealand: Tarawera 102k and our North Island Vacation
Leaving the airport in Auckland, it was my first time “driving left,” and while I was good about being in the right place and diving into the roundabouts, I might’ve hopped a curb or two as I drifted left in the narrow lanes. Meh, it was a rental. Takes a minute to get used to About an hour after leaving the airport, we were hit the trails for the first time in New Zealand. And we found a beauty! 15 minutes of NZ hiking uphill = picture above The next day we visited the Coromandel region to the north, to climb The Pinnacles. Also an amazing hike; it’ll probably rank very highly on our top 10 list when we revise our list of favorites after this trip (a routine post-vacation exercise for us). At the tip top That night we drove to Waimarino to do a glow worm kayaking tour. That was pretty neat - you couldn’t really take worthwhile pictures of the glow worms but just imagine thousands of greenish glowing dots along the sides of a nar...