Stupid Old Bag
Trip Start
Sep 15, 2007
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Trip End
Feb 11, 2008
Auckland, New Zealand
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Auckland I understand is known as the City of Sales, apparently named as they hold more car boot sales than any other city in the southern hemisphere. This being the largest city in New Zealand (approx 20,000 residents) its time for some shopping. The thing is I've been carting round an extremely heavy backpack, which I can't believe has actually resulted in me now having a hunchback. I am now bent over double mostly all of the time, it's fking ridiculous. I look like a fking street urchin from the 16th century, looking up at everyone with my stupid tropical weather beaten face, wincing because the sun is always in my eyes. Well I can't wear shades because they would just fall off as I'm facing the floor all the time. It won't be long before I'm asking people to cross my palm with silver. I was short to start with now I'm 4ft 2 for fks sake.
Anyway the long and short of it is, I now have a nice new Samsonite hard case that I wheel around. It truly is wheeley brilliant. I also bought meself a nice new backpack to go on the bus with and go out for the day like. Has all me personal stuff in like cake and things.
Quite alot of travellers end up exchanging their rucksacks for wheeley hard cases. You see these quite small girls with backpacks bigger than them, struggling to board a busy train. They're knocking into everyone and apologising whilst sweating like Paula Radcliffe after only 15 miles.
Either way it's done, probably the wrong way round, I've been around America with a backpack and exchanged it for a suitcase in the backpackers capital of the world, but there you are. Lindsay is persevering with hers for now, albeit a much lighter backpack and some of her stuff was in my bag already. Now she's eyeing up the more roomy suitcase too. But I have a brilliant and faultless plan, between you and me I'm going to fill the remaining space with bricks, under my stuff so she'll think its full already, that'll fool her, I win again. It appears the Samsonite has given me new and impressive brain powers, Samsonite, wasn't he the one with really long hair and was like a brick sht house. I don't know. Right time to seek out some Dolphins in Paihia.
Will.
Comments
Welcome to summer!!
It's great to think of you down here! Does everything in Auckland still close at 9pm?
Delilah-ful
So how's the lunchpack of Notre Zealand?
And what was the paella like with dolphin in it?
And just to put you right, it was Samsonite who slew the Cryptonites with the a*se-bone of a giraffe or was it the jaw-bone of an ass?
Keep the logs rolling; we're all really enjoying them
Tara a bit. D & M