This is the end, bah bah baaaah, beau-ti-ful nz
And so here it is, the end is nigh but not totally over yet. This here is our last New Zealand blog entry and we cant beleive its over, where did 5 months go??
After our last session at Paynes we had to try and get back down to castle hill for one more full on bouldering masacre, but unfortunatly fate had other plans. We drove up from Christchurch to get to Arthurs pass, where castle hill resides only to be turned away from a huge dump of snow not even with the mighty force of Charlotte behind us we still could not pass, so back to Christchurch we went with our tails between our legs.
We checked in at a hostal called the kiwi house which is now 'base camp'. We spent 11 days at the car market trying to give Charlotte a new home but it seemed our luck had run out, as on the 11th day we had our first real interested ausie guy who wanted to take her out for a test drive and he seemed keen to buy her, hopes were high......
Then half way through the drive he wanted to check out the power of her 4wd. Charlotte was obviously having 'womens problems' that day and decided to be in a bitch of a mood. 4wd selected and clunk clunk chug chug bang!!!! Charlotte was no more. The centre diff which is a key component to the 4wd broke, leaving us with an uninterested buyer and a mere shadow of a van. bummer!!!
It would cost us alot more than we could afford to get her fixed up so our only resort was to sell her for what she was worth, which was not alot. Fortunatly a mechanic bought her for $500 which is the best offer we had.
In this kind of situation we could only laugh at our bad luck and just remembered all the awsome times Charlotte has given us......
Its our last night in Christchurch tonight and we fly out tomorrow and on to Thailand, we wont be there for as long as we wanted but heh were still going to make the most out of the time we have left.
Only one pic for this entry, this is every place we checked out in New Zealand, this map was due to boredom on an extremly rainy day.......
posted by nicandtom @ 2:49 PM
4 Comments:
hello my two favorite englishmen! glad i finally figured this computer shit out. not gonna let it get the best of me! anyway, sad to hear you're gone from new zealand, but from the looks of it you acheived most that you came for and had a hell of a time doing it.. maybe even met a couple of crazy chicks along the way.... glad to say i'm one of em!! haha love you boys and can't wait to hear some of your asain adventures.. keep in touch eh.
and NO asain prosties!
your favorite yank!
heather\
p.s. i'll be thinkin of you tomorrow night at mans going away! xo
Thanks lads, a feast of adventures,and NZ poorer for the loss of your company.A right shame about Charlotte,but she did serve you well (How many miles)? Hope the next leg is as exciting..I look forward to more tales soon.
All the best... Zeb
Brilliant map boys, couldnt find a lot of places on our atlas so good that we have a log of it. Bummer about charlotte,we reaaly feel for you. Enjoy Thailand, see u at the end of the month probably, lotsa love mum & dad xxxxxxx
Easy tom its jojo you dont no me but fuck does your brother talk this a sweet site very motivating, i met your bro last year in france he told me to but some 5 10s never climbed before but why not then for my first clime it was lent bidextra 6a+ this year i lead my first 6c any way tell nic hes a cock kick him in the balls and lookin forward to climbing with the harvey bro's
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