Sweet As

Greetings from a freakishly soggy Alice Springs! We arrived to gray skies this morning and learned that it’s been pouring here for the last 5 days. Everything is flooded and the normally 100+ degree temps have been in the 60’s. We’re about to head off on a 5-day 4WD tour of the “Red Center,” but before we go totally offline we wanted to close out with a few final thoughts on our month in New Zealand.

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"Um, Dustin, Where's Laura?"

Our last big adventure in New Zealand was a really fun day of rafting the Rangitata river gorge deep in the Canterbury plain of the south island. The section of river we paddled included two sets of “class 5” rapids (which in laymen’s terms translates as “you’ll probably wet yourself when you paddle this rapid but technically it’s still safe.”) The only rapid more dangerous than class 5 is (you guessed it!) class 6, which you paddle only when you have a death wish and/or gills.

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