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While I was in New York I took the opportunity to get myself a pair of Vibram Fivefingers KSO Trek since they’re about 40 euros cheaper in the states compared to Finland. This particular model isn’t even available in Finland right now as far as I know. The whole idea with these shoes is that you’re [... continue reading ]
This post comes up long after I already landed back in Finland, but for sake of consistency I’ll write up about my stay in New York. My first steps in New York actually happened a couple of floors under the surface. I arrived at New York Penn station by train from Richmond and my first [... continue reading ]
Virginia, the last southern state before one gets into the blue states in the north on the east coast of the United States. I had the joy of staying with my cousin and her family in Chesterfield for two weeks, sometimes heading out on my own, sometimes going on trips with them, sometimes just chilling [... continue reading ]
Leaving San Francisco behind me I took a shuttle bus (CAShuttles) to Los Angeles. The drive itself was in a way an experience, with the bus not being marked with the name of the company (hard to tell if it was the right bus), the owner of the company stepping on the bus in San [... continue reading ]
Long haul flights are seldom something people tend to enjoy, but my 12h flight from Auckland, NZ to San Francisco, USA, was not bad. A nice and cheerful stewardess took care of meal services, which included roast chicken with whisky and wine for drinks and ice cream for dessert. Add to that being able to [... continue reading ]
Yes, there hasn’t been much activity here which is sort of the death sin of a blogger. But I’ll do a summary of events now. After having spent my time on the Kepler and South coast tracks I headed over towards the east coast of the south island. First stop was in the Catlins where [... continue reading ]
Sloping point, the southernmost point of the New Zealand south island, has now had to endure my footprints as well meaning I’m now heading north again. Standing there, you’re actually closer to the south pole than to the equator by a couple of hundred km’s. Already I’m well on my way up the east coast [... continue reading ]
There was basically one reason I wanted to go down to Fiordland and that was to take an overnight cruise on Doubtful sound, the less travelled of the two famous sounds in the area (the other one being Milford sound). There are many speculations as to why Doubtful sound is less popular. Some say it’s [... continue reading ]
“You must go on the Abel tasman track! oh you must!”. That is the reaction I’ve gotten so far whenever I’ve said I’m going south. So I finally made the jump across the Cook strait and as my first major stop I decided to walk the Abel Tasman track, since everyone’s been raving about it. [... continue reading ]