We started in Auckland in the North Island and after a few days flew to the South Island to the cool town of Christchurch. Here we picked up our "love bus" named Rusty. This camper van had quite a bit of rust covered with loads of graffiti spray paint picture of Kelly Slater (pro surfer.) Rusty was good to us. He gave us shelter, a bed, a mini kitchen and loads of fun (and a couple of crashes - ooops.)
We took Rusty to Mount Cook, Dunedin, Te Anau, Queenstown, Doubtful Sound, Fox Glacier, Franz Josef Glacier, Pancake Rocks, Marlborough Sound. Then took the ferry to Wellington on the North Island.
In the North Island, we drove up to Rotorua and went on a class 5 river raft tour. We went down a 7 meter waterfall in the raft. ROCKIN!
Our favorite meal on the road was SteakFajitas cooked on the campground grill with Speights beer. This meal was supplemented with Snickers bars regularly.
We met lots of people (from Germany and Switzerland ;) plus a really friendly Maori guy who was a lumber saw person. He told us some crazy ass stories about hunting wild boars only with a stick.
To find our pictures, you can go here on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=103269&id=504184250&l=b1c8f5a38a
