Taupo, Job Interview, Road Trip

I've left Auckland, took the bus a few hours south to Taupo. I needed to be in Taupo for a job interview for a lift operator position at Mt. Ruapehu, http://www.mtruapehu.com/. The interview went incredibly well and they told me that I had the job. I am going to be a Lift Operator, a job that I've always wanted to have. The mountain itself is one of the world's most active volcanoes, it last erupted in 2007. Stoked to have work all sorted out, and now I can enjoy New Zealand for a month and a half while we wait for snow.

I'd been looking to head south and want to get myself to Queenstown. Checked some message boards and found a couple of English backpackers who are taking a three day road trip in a big camper-van to Queenstown and are looking some one to share petrol (gas) costs with. I hit them up and they just got back to me and said I was welcome to come along, so yah they are picking me up on Wednesday and we are hitting the road. Wellington, ferry from island to island, Christchurch and over to Queenstown.

2007 eruption

road trippin