Adventurer

I'm in Wellington staying with Jay Montilla. I haven't seen him in about 4 years, it feels serendipitous that I am visiting him now. Like me he's just left his job and is finding a new way of living his life. Not bound by the rules of conformity to how people thought you should live life. We have finally learned to become ourselves.

This morning I woke up at 4AM in Lindy's place. We set out for our early flight into Christchurch. The night before I convinced Lindy we should go visit my friend in Wellington so we booked ferry tickets via the internet*. We got to Christchurch at 1230PM local time, got our hire car at a little past 1PM leaving us a very tight deadline to get to the Ferry in 4.5hrs over 338Km of the South Island's stunning vistas.

As soon as we got in the car, we fixed up the iPod first before the GPS navigation. We had our priorities right eh? We sped North to Picton and was one of the last 10 cars to check in for the last ferry to Wellington that night. Called Jay to let him know and he warns us that the ride could be rough across Cook Strait. It wasn't.

The ferry was an impressive ship, it took rail cars in the bottom deck, cars and trucks on the main deck, and then the passenger decks above. We were hungry so we had dinner on the ferry. After that we found a desk with a power point and watched movies on my laptop. I stepped out on to the outside deck in the middle of the 92km crossing and was amazed at how black everything was was in open sea at night. We only realised we were in Wellington harbour as we were surrounded by the city's lights twinkling in the distance.

We just got back into our cars and drove off as soon as the ferry had docked. Then it was the GPS guiding us all the way to Jay's house.

Tomorrow we will be a new adventure.

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* I am amazed at how travel has become so easy to organise in today's internet age. Think about it. As of Monday I had no clue I was going to travel. By Monday night I had already booked my rewards plane ticket to Christchurch; Tuesday I had hired a car with roofracks, snowchains, and GPS, Wednesday I had travel insurance sorted; Friday night I had contacted Jay to let him know we were coming, and I booked the ferry passage. And here I am now typing this blog entry using Jay's connection. SO so so so COOL!