In Wellington, NZ now and hopefully will be posting a link to a map of our travels soon (courtesy Sasha)...the first weeks in South America went by slowly but time's a-flying now.
I have to share the story of the best April Fool's trick on Auckland (yes, the entire city) ever. A few years ago, a group of university students woke up early one morning (or more likely, stayed up late drinking) and drove up to Mt. Eden, a large volcanic crater in the middle of the city. Once there, they sent a pile of rubber tires rolling into the crater and then lit them on fire. Apparently, rubber tires smoke. A lot. Auckland city woke up that morning to see one of the 49 volcanoes it sits on, smoking...the rest is easy to imagine. The city began organizing an immediate evacuation and had 3,000 people out before someone remembered it was April 1st and went close enough to check out the smoking volcano. While Auckland was pretty pissed, the rest of NZ got a big laugh out of it. I love it.
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