Just a quick update to let everyone know I made it to Christchurch safely. I’ve checked into the hostel and am just using the internet quickly on the way to find some takeout and then go to bed. I’ll be lucky if I make it until 8!

Anyway, all of the flights were relatively uneventful, although I got next to no sleep due to terrible turbulence all the way from LA to Fiji. I wrote some about Fiji on the plane that I will post when I can keep my eyes open!

Off to Akaroa tomorrow afternoon after I do some backpack reorganization and grocery shopping. Hopefully I’ll be doing some mountain biking and sailing there, although the weather’s pretty dismal at the moment–which is fitting, since Christchurch is supposedly the city in NZ that is most like a British town. I’m just hoping these remnants of a cyclone go away soon!