TOO MUCH THINKING TIME!

So I've traveled 18 hours on bus over the last 2 days on a freakin bus! The map isnt to hard to read if you look at only the South Island. Yesterday I traveled from Nelson to Fox Glacier (10 hours). a nice stop was the pancake rocks in punakaki and the glacier at fox glacier. Then I took the bus from Fox glacier to Queenstown today (8 hours). I'm tired, I'm lonely, but I am so glad I am getting to see the REAL NEW ZEALAND. The deep south really is the best part of NZ. It has the mountains shooting up into the sky far past the clouds, laks larger than you can imagine, and just a whole lot of gorgeous bush flowers and waterfalls!!

pancake rocks at punaikaki near greymouth

Lake Matheson in Fox Glacier. Just 6 miles from my hostel which I actually didnt get to see b/c of bad weather. I'm hoping to get there on my way back up the south island.

Queenstown: Where I am now.

Queenstown is a place in itself. Its the adventure capital of new zealand. As I drove into the town i saw a person bunji jumping. During my run an hour later I saw people parachuting from the sky! This guy I talked to at the hostel is all about doing river surfing...basically that's when you screw the raft in white water rafting and decide to go down the rapids on a surf board!

I've booked a hut (30$ US dollars)and a roundtrip bus ride (50 US$) to do the routeburn track on Monday! Its about 9 hours of tracking over 2 days. I'm excited and I'll definitely be taking pics.

I'm excited to come home!!!