A proposal, tons of tramping!
Trip Start
Feb 14, 2006
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Trip End
Apr 30, 2006
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Queenstown, New Zealand
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
A Proposal
We hiked the Kepler Track with some friends we had met on another track. On the first day we reached the hut with about 3 hours of light left in the sky. Nelly and I still had a bunch of energy left, so we decided to hike to the peak of Mt Luxmore, about an hour away. As we were climbing the mountain I realized the view was going to be amazing and the sun was getting low in the sky, so we'd have the peak to ourselves.
After sitting on the peak for a few minutes, with a cold wind blowing over us, I fumbled around in my bag for a box I had been carrying for the past few weeks. After mumbling some sweet words I told Nelly "I want to marry you" and presented her with a ring. She replied with a tear in her eye: "...do I have take off my glove?"
Luckily she said yes, otherwise the next 3 days of the hike would be a bit awkward.
Lots and lots of hiking
After the 4 day Kepler Track we did the Greenstone and Caples Track, followed immediately by the Rees and Dart Track. The last two hikes amounted to 10 straight days of 4-6 hour days hiking. In the meantime our car decided to act up. It stalls below 1000rpm, so it made the hairy drive along the flooded, winding, dirt roads even more interesting since I had to go fast to keep the car from stalling and loosing power steering. Yippeee.
What Next
We're in Queenstown for a few days while the car gets a tune up and we get out fill of 'net. Then we head south to the Southern Scenic Highway.
Comments
Congratulations!
Sounds like a beautiful proposal. Congratulations!