1 frame per kilometer

3,000 of them. Approx distance covered and pics we took of places we went. The NZ trip was the most photographed trip in terms of how much there was to capture through the lens much to he dismay of my family. They thought I'd lost it (again) as they often could not locate me on long walks. I might have been enraptured by some bird or a funny sign along the road we travelled.

Losing oneself physically and mentally can come easily whilst meandering throughout NZ. Beginning the journey in the city of sails - Auckland - them traveling all the way south beyond the 45th parallel to experience the roaring forties...latitudes with high wind..then back up through glacier country and the western spine of the southern alps we arrived back to Ack for the final flights home.

I ran into quite a few new migrants that have made this country their home - some from Pune, India, some from other parts of India as well..students, learning to cook to manage resorts to others that are here to teach soccer or to run bakeries..from Korea to other Eastern European nations..seemingly happier than what they left behind.

I for one think its a wonderful place that can serve as a retirement option down the road if there is such a thing.

Next blogs shall include pictures without narrative to sell the readership on this natures' best down under.

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