Today is the 9th and we woke up to a nice cool, but sunny day. Took the city bus into the downtown area and are planning a ful day of exploring the city. Cable car, Botanical Gardens, TePupa Museum plus a bit of shopping. We are staying in a camperpark in the city of Hutt, about a 30 minute bus ride away. This is where we will drop the campervan off tomorrow morning and then head back down to the harbor and take the ferry across to the south island.
Yesterday we had a full day of driving going from Hastings to Hutt. We saw beautiful countryside and went through a major mountan range - Quite the experience driving on the narrow roads in our campervan! We both were a bit tense as we wove our way through the mountain road. Along the way we did see several general locations where scenes from the Lord of the Rings occured. Very cool to see. Also enroute we made a stop at the Tui Brewery. Dave really enjoyed tasting some of the local brew. We grabbed a bite to eat there, too. Last night we took a evening walk along the Hutt River - It was unique, in that a good part of the walk went right through a golf course! We walked on a raised walkway, and had to watch out for the golfers!. Fortunately, there were only a few out on the course.
We are finding that the "locals" are generally very friendly and most helpful to us, especially as they find out we are touring from the states.
That's about it for now - hope all is well back in the states!
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