Right before I left Sydney I managed to get a massively annoying headcold/swine flu combo, which was really fun while being on an airplane and all that. Ian and I have decided to do some traveling on our own, so when I got to Auckland (the city I loathe), I had to buy my own car (I task which I abhor). Combined with my nasty illness, this made for an unhappy few days. But I knocked that thing out less than 24 hours after arriving in Auckland, so good job me. I got a '92 Subaru Legacy that's been "camperized"--ie has a mattress in the back over the seats. Her name is Rachel (not my choice), she has less than 200k kilometers on her and I paid around US$1400 or so. Not toooo shabby.
I drove down to Raglan Friday to meet up with Ian and sort out our stuff, and we ended up staying at a motor camp and not going more than about 200 yards away from our cars the whole time. I was too sick and didn't want to do anything but recuperate. So I read, watched crappy tv, slept, used 19230483 tissues, ate Tim Tams, and finally got better. It was actually rather nice. Ian left today and I met up with Enfys, a ridiculously kind person I met at the Buddhist Centre who lives here in Raglan, and I think tonight will be more sleeping. Raglan is a famous beach/surfing town--The Endless Summer was filmed here--but since it's the middle of winter it's pouring down rain. I do want to go drive around and at least look at some beaches, but I just can't make myself go outside and walk around too much in the rain. Hopefully the weather will be better tomorrow. I won't be so naive as to actually think it will be sunny, but less rain would be great. Or maybe I'll just have to walk along the beach in the rain! It wouldn't be the end of the world. :)
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