Entries in "Te Anau"
Kepler track and a major decision, Wed Apr 19, 2006
I finished the Kepler track yesterday. I did it in about half the average walking time. On the first day, I climbed over 3000 vertical feet in 2 hours! Most people take 4 hours. So yeah, I was booking it. Because I was fast, I spent a lot of time in the huts. Good thing Mom sent playing cards with me; I haven't done much else but learn card games and play them all night long in the huts. This British guy taught us all to play various games, and I tramped quite a bit with this Israeli couple, Issaf and Iviv.
I realized I wish I had a digital camera. I'm just no good at taking pictures, and developing film down here is really expensive. I have also been thinking having Tony down here would have made the trip better. Not only is he a way better photographer, but I could drag him along everywhere I wanted to go and he would be cool with it. Plus girls like him :) And he could split the price of a car...