This is our last day in New Zealand. We’ve driven around for a week to the mountains, farmland and ocean.

 

 
 

 
 

 

Also, we paraglided!

     

 
 

 

It was fun to pretend I was a hawk riding the thermals. But I did get nauseated when he started us on the 360-spins. JP, my pilot, let me fly it while he took pictures.

  
Now, we’re back in Christchurch and prepping for our world tour.

That means laundry, inoculations, and reorganization. Also, lots of walking around Christchurch. It’s a very cool city that is full of green space and public art. 

 

 
Right after we landed in New Zealand from Antarctica Richard started showing symptoms of a upper respiratory virus. He sneezed and blew his nose through that for the week. This morning, I woke up with the same symptoms. Yay! Bring on the 24 hours of travel it will take to get to Japan. Oh, well. For now I will be binge drinking tea and pretending I feel fine.