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.