The "Plan"

For any longish trip, it's our experience that you should have some sort of plan of where you MUST go, where you'd LIKE to go, and where, if you have any extra time, you MIGHT visit.

So, without further ado, here's our rough plan of where we plan to go in New Zealand:

North Island:

1. Auckland
2. Tauranga region
3. Rotorua & Lake Taupo
4. Tongariro Crossing, baby!
5. Well-well-well, Wellington

And then, we toss and turn on the ferry crossing over Cook Strait to the South Island.

South Island:

1. Nelson and Abel Tasman Park
2. Kaikoura for some marine mammal watchin'
3. Christchurch
4. Canterbury Plains and Mt. Cook
5. Queenstown & Te Anau