New Zealand Highlights

My trip to New Zealand in 2011 was simply amazing, it's a beautiful country suited for travelers and adventurers. I hiked, hitchhiked, flew a helicopter and performance plane, kayaked, camped, geeked out, sipped wine, kiwi burned, fished, biked and heaps more.


Over 8,500 kilometers traveled  (over 5,200 miles), mostly hitchhiking, around 300km hiking on foot, and a loop around the south island in a luxury tour bus for free after getting picked up hitchhiking by the right person at the right time.

I captured this three month trip with 17 stories, 469 photos and 3 videos.

Three months of stories:

• Arriving in New Zealand
• First Adventure in New Zealand, Cape Reinga
• Beaches, Big Trees and Camping by the Ocean with Savvy Natives
• Some Hospitable Fishermen
• Kiwi Burn 2011, Cows with Guns and Other Madness
• The Journey To Find My Shorts
• The Road to Wellington
• Arriving in the South Island of New Zealand
• Walking The Heaphy Track
• Germans on the Beach and a Hitch back East
• Wine Country (plus some beer, mead and horse betting)
• New Zealand's take on 2012
• Hitching the West Coast of the South Island
• Birds Eye View of New Zealand - Part 1
• Adventure Tour (Birds Eye View of New Zealand - Part 2)
• One Beer to End the Adventure - (Birds Eye View of New Zealand - Part 3)
• Last Blast of New Zealand

New Zealand photos:

See all the New Zealand photos

And the videos:

Good times.