Roadtrip!!! day 2

We got our campervan rental this morning – from Wicked Rentals. It’s a 3-seater van with a ghetto pump sink, kitchenware and silverware that doesn’t look clean at all, a gross fold-out table and chairs, a propane tank to cook with, etc. We can make a table area in the main part of the van, or put it down and turn it into a bed for the 3 of us. And there are compartments underneath the “beds” to stash our stuff. It’s pretty crazy – can’t believe we’re doing this! Oh! AND it drives on the left side of the road!

Omg, and they were about to give us a manual van! None of us know how to drive a manual! I should have gotten Ralph to teach me over the summer when I was at his house. I’m mad I didn’t now. Luckily they had an automatic we could use. Really I’m not supposed to be driving this thing anyway, cuz I lost my license at the beginning of the semester. But I will anyway – I don’t want to make Anela drive the whole trip. I just have to get used to driving on the left side of the road! This is so backwards.

So we stocked up on food and gas, then headed out! Woohoo, road trip! So we’re traveling through the Southern Alps today over to Greymouth, then down the west coast to Franz Josef tonight. The Alps have been soo pretty so far! Kind of like Steven’s Pass, but with less trees, some waterfalls, and springtime weather. The Alps are the Misty Mts in Lord of the Rings, which I thought was really cool. :)

That night: So we got over to Greymouth by dinnertime and went up to Pukaiki to see some pancake rocks and a blowhole. The pancake rocks looked really cool. Scientists don’t know how they were made. Stopped to make pbj sandwiches for dinner tonight. Mmmmm, pbj. What a meal lol. Sunset was pretty.

Heading down the West Coast to Franz Josef, I drove the car. It is SOO weird driving on the left side! I had to hug the middle line and it felt like I was going to hit al the cars coming at me! And I almost hit the posts on the curb a couple times – oops hehe. It’s soo different.

Took us forever to find our campsite that night. We passed by it at least 3 times before we found it. Signs were terrible. And we can just fit us 3 in the back for sleeping…we’re so roughing it lol.

Leah