One thing that really stinks about being homeless: rainy days. Today was the chilly, grey kind of morning where you want to curl up on a comfy couch by the fire with some tea and a book. Unfortunately, when your home is a two-person tent and a Subaru, your rainy day options are somewhat limited. Up until today, the weather has been really great – it actually felt like summer again once we got out of Queenstown and the freak snow flurries – and we’ve been ambling up the west coast, freedom camping (aka free – yippee!) on beaches, exploring the glaciers, and tramping up glacial river valleys to natural hot springs. We don’t really have any specific itinerary, which is great, and lets us linger in the places we like; we’ve been keeping our bronze up to date by floating on our thermarests on a lake all day, we celebrated st. patty’s day with a bunch of Israelis by playing on a pirate ship replica by the beach, and we met up with Helen and Carl for a rainy day in Hokitika, the jade capital of New Zealand (not that jade had anything to do with anything we did in hokitown, or Helen and Carl, but it’s a fun little factoid). We had wanted to do a day hike up to a peak in Arthur’s Pass, but of course, the weather came in today, so that plan was nixed, and instead we hung out at a coffee shop with the largest collection of teapots in the world, probably, and caught up and swapped notes on fun things to do and places to go and whatnot. I was bummed we couldn’t spend more time with them, but we’re traveling in exactly opposite directions.
Today we met up with our flatmate from qt, a lovely little Canadian named Anna, who took this week off work to come hang out with us, and we’re going to head up to the Nelson area, which is supposedly the sunniest place in nz, so hopefully the weather lets up.
im stealing free internet from the library, and for some reason it won't let me upload photos, so you'll just have to wait on that for a bit more...
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