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Since James works with GIS and mapping components a lot, he decided to track the whole trip, so you (and he) could relive it! You will see our pictures, and the point moving across New Zealand, just like we did (blue is for moving, red is for sleeping/staying still)!
If you ever want to not see something (the path, time-lapse, or the pictures), just turn them off with the menu in the top right corner. Feel free to explore, or click "Daily View", and the map will take you through day by day!', dailyIntroTitle: "Welcome to the Brown's New Zealand Trip Map!", dailyIntroText: 'James and Jennifer recently got to take a "trip of a lifetime" to New Zealand!
Since James works with GIS and mapping components a lot, he decided to track the whole trip, so you (and he) could relive it! You will see our pictures, and the point moving across New Zealand, just like we did (blue is for moving, red is for sleeping/staying still)!
If you ever want to hide something (the path, time-lapse, or the pictures), just turn them off with the menu in the top right corner. If you do nothing (and leave the checkboxes below unchecked), I will take you through each day, showing you some of our favorite pictures from each day. You'+"'"+'ll see the pictures in the order we took them, as the time-lapse layer comes to the point in the day that we took that picture.
If you want to stay on the picture I show you (and maybe explore the other pictures near it) until you'+"'"+'re ready to move on, check the top box below. When you'+"'"+'re ready to move on, click the play button and the journey will continue. If you want to see lots of the pictures (not just the highlighted ones), check the bottom box (you'+"'"+'ll have to click on any picture you want to see yourself).
Once you click to have a picture open, you can click on the left or right side (or use the arrow keys) to move through the images, they will cycle through in the order they were taken.
To see this modal again, click on the button on the bottom right. Please see the attribution link in the bottom right as well! Thanks for visiting the map!', removeRows: [7, 6, 5, 2], days: [{ date: '2015-11-08', description: "

Arrival

We made it! And in only 27 hours! The ocean is so awesome, we've definitely missed it. We flew in to Wellington, which is on the north island and had a wonderful talk with our B&B host, Neil, who has lived in both NZ and the US! We also walked around the city, and saw some of the sites... Then we got HUNGRY! Apparently, the city shuts down for Sunday evenings: nothing was open! We finally found an expensive restaurant that was open; certainly wasn't the best food we had, but at least we weren't hungry anymore!Yay for getting to sleep in a real bed!" }, { date: '2015-11-09', description: '

Wellington

Breakfast: fruit salad, tea, croissants, toast, bacon, and eggs. WOW. Best breakfast ever. Te Papa, the free national museum, was awesome! It was impossibly huge with so many cool things! We were there for hours.On to the Weta Workshop, the team that built all the props for Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, and hundreds of other movies! Very cool place with many cool miniatures!We found food (pizza for these Americans) and walked through the botanical gardens to complete a wonderful day.' }, { date: '2015-11-10', center: [-41.877741451096746, 174.3914794921875], zoom: 8, description: "

Ferry & Kaikoura

Neil took us to the ferry, which was NOT in his job description (and was super helpful!). Luckily made it onto the ferry after James had a ticket for the wrong day. It was a beautiful ride to the south island (though the wind got old pretty fast). Then, we hopped straight on the bus to Kaikoura!The information center people in Kaikoura told us to do the hike around the peninsula today, so we started a 3.5 hour hike at 3:30! It was so worth it though, beautiful ocean views with the mountain backdrop!Then we get near the end and got to hang out with some baby seals! They were adorable! We grabbed dinner around 8 on the way to the hostel, and walked home in the dark." }, { date: '2015-11-11', description: '

Kaikoura & Family

Apparently hostels can be loud, and hard to sleep in. Who knew?! (Sorry Jennifer!)It rained pretty much all day, and we were really glad we went for the hike yesterday! We went shopping for a few things, and rode bikes over to see the seals, but the rain drove us back to the hostel. The fellow hostel dwellers were all wearing onesies, check out the pictures!Then, Jo (Jennifer'+"'"+'s distant cousin) came and picked us up and brought us to their family farm! Jo was amazing, so helpful and interested in what we were doing and our plans. She made a wonderful dinner, and then we all crashed! Jennifer loved the "hotties" (hot waterbottles) Jo used to heat the beds.' }, { date: '2015-11-12', description: "

The Farm

Yay for comfortable beds and getting to sleep in! We braved the weather (every 15 minutes it would stop or start raining) to hike around the farm; such idyllic country! The broom bush is a weed, and it is terrible for the land, but it makes the hills look amazing!Charlie, Jo's husband, helped us warm up and dry off, before showing us around the farm! It was so interesting, learning about sheepdogs and the shearing process! Charlie and Jo were gone in the evening so we made our own dinner and got to bed early in preparation for the big day ahead!" }, { date: '2015-11-13', description: '

The Campervan

Jo drove us 2 hours to pick up our campervan: did I mention Jo was the best?! The campervan is awesome, one of the smallest ones with a kitchen, toilet, and shower. Driving is rough: you are on the wrong side of the car and road, with a stick shift (on your left side). We got food at the grocery store (SO much more reasonable than eating out!) and headed out. We stopped at Lake Tekapo and then headed towards Mt Cook. We found our favorite camping spot of the whole trip that night, on Lake Pukaki. We were right next to the lake, with a perfect view of Mt. Cook on the other side! We made dinner at 9pm (this would become a theme) and CRASHED.' }, { date: '2015-11-14', description: "

Mt Cook & Oamaru

What a view to wake up to! Too bad it was cloudy the rest of the day. This was the last time we saw the peak. Quick breakfast and on to Mt Cook. It was raining/sleeting, but we decided we HAD to push through and do the Hooker Valley hike. The wind was the worst part, so strong! The view at the end was very cool though! We walked up to Tasman Glacier (super pretty) before we left for Oamaru. A bit of a mishap with our van once we got there: the bed fell through and one of the cabinets got stuck shut. We figured it out, but it was a little stressful! Then we went to see the cute blue penguins. The adults are only 1 ft tall! They were very cute, it was tons of fun. We found our camping spot around midnight and couldn't see a thing... Hopefully it's a cool spot, we'll find out in the morning!" }, { date: '2015-11-15', center: [-45.704581836460136, 169.57524113], zoom: 8, description: '

Maoraki & Driving

Turns out, we parked on a beach! Who knew?! We walked around for a bit then headed down the coast. We saw the Maoraki boulders: they were huge and very smooth. We stopped in Dunedin and got out as fast as possible since driving in a city on the wrong side of the road is much harder! Jennifer saved James from wrecking the campervan by driving it into a parking garage. We drove a long ways, towards Te Anau, where Jennifer found a little campervan parking place that was also a farm! It was fun feeding the animals and nice to use a grill (instead of a stove) for our dinner: burgers! And yay for our first shower since the 12th!' }, { date: '2015-11-16', description: "

Te Anau & Glowworms

We left the farm early to get to Te Anau! We decided on doing the glowworm caves today and kayaking the next day. We got in a hike on the Kepler Track, a 4 day 38 mile loop that we did the first few miles of. Very nice terrain! Then, we got on the boat to go see the glowworms all the way across the lake. We hiked 200~300 yards into a cave and then got in a tiny boat (and turned off all the lights) to see the glowworms. They were so cool! We were close enough to touch them, they looked like tiny stars all over! Once that was done, we saw a few more things on our way up towards Milford Sound (we got as close as possible to prepare for the long day ahead!)" }, { date: '2015-11-17', description: "

Milford Sound

We're up before 7, driving into Milford Sound. It's so amazingly pretty that James couldn't stop staring! The guides walked us through kayaking and the gear, then we got prepped and headed out onto the sound in their boat. They dropped us off near a waterfall, which we then kayaked through! Then we kayaked on back. We saw a dolphin, a penguin, lots of seals and other cool wildlife! As we left Milford Sound, we did 2 hikes: one pretty short (about 1 hour), and the other the start of the Routeburn Trek (aka Key Summit), which was about 3.5 hours. Way too much to try to tell you about all of it, but it was by far the best day with so many amazing pictures! If you have a bit more time, pause & look at these pictures! They're the best!" }, { date: '2015-11-18', description: "

Recovery (Queenstown & Wanaka)

Definitely a sleep in morning! Finally left around 9:30, and headed back towards Te Anau. We got our first shower since the farm! Yeah, it was REALLY needed! We headed over to Queenstown, which felt a lot like Boulder with a lake near downtown. Very college/hipster esque, but also very fun and pretty. We had our favorite food here, at Fergburger (I know, a burger? But it was so good!), and then we headed out towards Wanaka. If Queenstown was Boulder, Wanaka was Breckenridge. Much smaller, in the mountains (on a lake, though), and fairly chill. We went on a short hike there, and then drove out of town to stay the night at the bottom of Diamond Lake." }, { date: '2015-11-19', description: '

The West Coast

We stayed at the base of a hike, so when we got up we ate breakfast and started the hike. It was a real climb, but the view at the top was worth it! Amazing pictures of Wanaka & Diamond Lake. We headed back down and out, towards the west coast. We stopped in a few places along the way, but we were still really tired. A bit of an adventure getting to the campsite, since it was 45 minutes down a one lane dirt road, but we made it! As we were cooking dinner, we saw wild sheep just wander through the parking area. We ended up following them, and had quite the adventure! We were so loopy and tired, you probably had to be there, but it was awesome. Bedtime!' }, { date: '2015-11-20', description: "

The Glaciers, Hokitika Gorge, and Pancake Rocks

We gotta do it all, and we gotta make it close to Christchurch! We wanted to do a hike near the glaciers, but it was POURING rain. We asked around, and ended up going to see the Kiwi bird at a rescue to save them from extinction; it was very cool and informative. We drove a long ways to the Hokey Pokey Gorge (we couldn't say Hokitika, eventually we gave up), which was cool but not nearly as pretty as the pictures due to the recent rains. Then we headed up to see the pancake rocks which were pretty awesome! Very busy though. We left fairly quickly and headed back south over Arthur's pass towards Christchurch. We probably would have appreciated it more if we hadn't seen so many other cool things. We stayed right on a lake, and started preparing to leave the next day." }, { date: '2015-11-21', description: "

Leaving

:(We're both so sad! We packed a lot, and then Jennifer found a short hike with caves at the end to check out. Very cool and fun, we wished we had more time to actually go in! It said be prepared to get wet up to your waist though, and we were NOT prepared. We drove onto Christchurch, and of course got there early. We went on a hunt for ice cream, and ended up getting a pint at a grocery store. We ate almost all of it, before we had to return the campervan. We got dropped off at the airport, and so ended the "+'"Trip of a Lifetime"!' }] }