a lot lighter than i thought
we're going on an
thank adventure
so ling and i have been in dunedin for the past three weeks staying with my cousin
she was so gracious to let us stay with her family and she's been hosting us for the
past three weeks but now it's time to go on an adventure an adventure an adventure
and with 22 or so remaining hours to use on our inter-city cars to go around
new zealand we have to use these hours because they expire at the end of next month
the end of november so we decided to ditch the car and go back to our old school routes
of backpacking literally and when i say backpacking i don't mean having a backpack
sticking it in the back of the car and then driving all over the place actually backpacking
for the next five days we're gonna rely on nothing but intercity to get us to our destination but
our end destination is going to be the doubtful sounds it actually makes me very uncomfortable
after getting so used to having a vehicle to ditch it and start taking the bus part of that stress is
that feeling of knowing that you have to be at a specific time to catch a bus and if you miss it
you miss the bus and you got to figure something out versus having a car you can kind of just hop
in your vehicle anytime you want and you have that freedom without the added stress of having to be
somewhere to catch a bus and our end destination today is going to be tia now but we still have to
figure out how to get to manapuri that's where the cruise to doubtful sound is going to leave
that's where we need to start getting friendly to other backpackers in the hospital because then
they might be like oh you need a ride i can give it to you we don't know how we're gonna get there
but we're gonna figure that second half of our our trip out and how we're gonna get to matapuri
bus comes in about 10 minutes i just got to take a leak
where's the water water sprayed soap but no water okay gotta go
is
and i'm inside we're american made
give me homework one dream one life one lover made me
it's just me and you
thank you
gateway to the fjordland national park
and the milford sounds we're not going to milford though we're going to go south to
doubtful doubtful sounds first we need to check into our accommodations which
ling prepared for us she's the itinerary itinerary planner here so she booked this
i know that's not true we're here at the uh youth hostel the yhi you got the key
code it's about 7 40 so check-in is over but they left us the key so we can get into our
rooms
no
all right home for the night house is nice i saw the bed clean towels
there's a barbecue all the time i think that's a heater peter
oh now it's on towels so that was a rather tiring tiring five hour trip from dunedin like a sheep
um remember in dunedin when i was saying that it's a slightly more stressful
travel experience when you don't have a car because you have to be at a certain place at a
certain time to catch your bus we had to transfer buses in gore and the bus from dunedin to gore was
running a bit late but luckily the bus driver didn't drive off without us he waited for us
took us on and as you saw in the video he was so nice to even drop us off right in front of the yha
youth hostel yeah it was really cool really cool maori fella so it's about seven ten to
eight right now we're hungry we haven't had supper yet so we're gonna go cook some food and uh figure
out how we're gonna get to manapuri tomorrow it's 20 kilometers south of here and manapuri is where
the excursion for the doubtful sounds overnight cruise leaves hopefully we can meet someone maybe
some other backpackers that might be driving down we will bribe them with these chocolates otherwise
we'll have to figure something out and so i'm gonna go eat we got some beef stew heat it up