We have finally unpacked our backpacks after some time and have now the luxury of our own apartment . Even now i gleefully type this on our new laptop after enjoying a very tasty beef stew Anja cooked in our own kitchen without having to share with all the different people we have encountered during our travels together. For we have become disillusioned with the term "backpacker" as now everyone wheels their luggage behind them as well as lugging their laptop and ipods with them. Still they eat the two minute noodles as they are a budget traveller but then proceed to spend over a hundred dollars on a drunken rampage in whatever foreign city they currently reside in.
So it is with little regret we now can live some of the "normal" life here in the most populous city of NZ and enjoy some of the creature comforts we so longed for. I'm enjoying the comfort of a couch while Anja happily enjoys the freedom of not sharing a bathroom with numerous strangers, Work has become another thing we do again but yes we have bills now and need to be responsible of course.
Auckland has presented us with some challenges already but our resolve has proven worthy to any thing that has presented itself thus far. So it is with great pleasure that we shall use this website to share some of the photos we have taken and of course some that will be taken in the future no doubt. Even if we are the ones who greedily enjoy this the most so be it as it allows us a time to reflect on what we have done together and write also about it.
Jason