Wow! It's the final leg of our adventure and we've made our way from Paihia to Auckland for the final 3 nights of our tour. The drive was 4 hours through pristine coastal areas - a thousand shades of green on the hillsides, incredible mountain vistas, stunning golden beaches, and more colors of blue sea than you can imagine - spectacular and really amazing!
The weather forecast for tomorrow (for the whole of New Zealand) is calling for torrential rain and gale force winds. We're not sure how much sightseeing will be in the cards, but if the weather does turn to crap, we'll be content to read, watch a bit of TV and catch up on email.
We enjoyed a brief visit to Auckland as a port of call during the cruise to Sydney. We really enjoyed that day - an incredible city. Let's hope we get to explore a bit more of it.
We head back to the States Monday afternoon and we're not especially looking forward to our flight - it will be quite a long journey. We depart from Auckland on Air Tahiti Nui Flight #102 at 3:00 pm and stop-over in Papeete, French Polynesia for a 2 hour lay-over. We then depart Papeete on Air Tahiti Nui Flight #22 to Los Angeles, arriving around 10:00 am. From LA we Board Delta Air Lines Flight #1194 around 12:45 pm, arriving Cincinati at 8:00 pm.
Heather and Nancy's mom, Joan, will gather our bones and take us home. Although we will be glad to see everyone - we won't be looking forward to the snow and ice on the other end.
Most of all though, we will miss this incredible place and the Kiwi people. We'll be planning a return trip soon.
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