Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Kia Ora South Island



Meet Hatch! Our campervan. We flew to Christchurch from Wellington where we picked up Hatch from the Explore More office to begin our two-week trip around the South Island. Val and I are big Lost fans, so it was appropriate the campervan was named Hatch, which plays a huge part in the show's earlier seasons.

Hatch is a male, by the way, and sometimes we called him "Hatchy-Hatch", and once we had about 40 mosquitoes trapped inside of him - which was horrible! - and twice his battery died, which were also not-so-fun situations. But at the end of the day Hatch transported us safely from city to city, so I really can't complain.