Vacation?
\nA quick rundown: Started in Auckland, went to the Bay of Islands (4 hrs to the north). Stayed at an excellent B&B for 2 days, spent a day sailing on a 60-something foot sailboat. Drove down to Waitomo (8hrs south… ouch), beginning to feel quite worn out from all this vacat’ing. Stayed at a farmstay for one night (very nice, got to do a bit of rally-style driving at night on 12+ km’s on gravel road :). Went to the glowworm caves at Waitomo (which was surprisingly cool). Drove to some volcanic park, it was raining so we flipped a U-turn and drove to Taupo Lake (very much like NZ’s answer to Lake Tahoe) where we’ve been for the last 2 days (now that’s more like a vacation). I’ve got something like 1.3gb of photos (and most of them are pretty good, not all pictures of bathroom-humour-type signs, which is something of a departure for me). We’re heading back to Auckland this morning to meet up with our travelling companions. We’ll try and hit the Auckland Zoo before we leave and see a real Kiwi (the bird, not the fruit, we saw the fruit at Pak n’ Save yesterday). Then it’s back on the plane to the land of left-hand drive… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vacation? A quick rundown: Started in Auckland, went to the Bay of Islands (4 hrs to the north). Stayed at an excellent B&B for 2 days, spent a day sailing on a 60-something foot sailboat. Drove down to Waitomo (8hrs south… ouch), beginning to feel quite worn out from all this vacat’ing. Stayed at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jthurber.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}